Tag: biometric data

• Monday, March 1st 2021 - 08:34 UTC

  Facebook will pay US$ 650 million for illegally collecting biometric data to identify faces

  

  A US federal judge has given final approval to Facebook's US$650 million payment to settle a privacy dispute between the California group and 1.6 million users in the US state of Illinois. The decision was issued on Friday.

• Monday, August 19th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  UK investigation into breaches in the storage of public's biometric data

  

  The nature of how organizations capture and store the public's biometric data, such as fingerprints and images of faces, came under renewed scrutiny in Britain by security experts and regulators.