The New Jersey attorney general recently made headlines when he made the decision on January 24, 2020 to have prosecutors immediately stop using a facial recognition app produced by Clearview AI (https://clearview.ai/). Clearview AI is an app that markets itself as helping to stop criminals. The Clearview AI website states: “Clearview helps to
Following up on our post of January 22, 2020 (“Big News in Biometrics – Supreme Court Declines to Weigh in on What Plaintiffs Must Show to Bring Biometric Privacy Suit”), Facebook has now agreed to pay $550 million to settle the BIPA class action lawsuit. This is the largest BIPA settlement ever, and it will
On January 21, 2020, the Supreme Court denied Facebook’s Petition for Certiorari, raising the issues of (i) Whether a court can find Article III standing based on its conclusion that a state protects a concrete interest, without determining that the plaintiff suffered a personal, real-world injury from the alleged statutory violation; (ii) whether a court