Chris Burt reports: A biometric data privacy lawsuit against Clearview AI will head back to state court after the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the suit had been correctly remanded by a lower court, Law360 writes. Plaintiffs in the suit made narrow claims to avoid Article III standing in federal court, as they are entitled to do, the…
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Belgium: Digital fingerprints on ID cards – no violation of the right to privacy according to the Belgian Constitutional Court
On 14 January 2021, the Belgian Constitutional Court delivered a highly anticipated judgment on the legality of the integration of the digital format of two fingerprints in ID cards, introduced through Article 27 of the Belgian law of 25 November 2018. After a balancing of interests, the Court ruled that the inclusion of digital fingerprints…
Selfie-Snapping Rioters Leave FBI a Trail of Over 140,000 Images, Internet sleuthing explodes, raising concerns
Todd Shields, Kartikay Mehrotra, Naomi Nix, and Jennifer A Dlouhy report: The FBI arrested one man after a co-worker at a western Maryland restaurant reported seeing him in images of people assaulting the U.S. Capitol. A Texas man was charged after his ex-wife recognized him in a social-media video and called authorities, noting that it…
Ca: Indigenous leaders call on B.C. government to notify parents subjected to ‘illegal and unconstitutional’ birth alerts
Brielle Morgan reports: Families who were subjected to birth alerts deserve to know their personal information was shared between social workers and health care workers without their consent, says Cheryl Casimer. “First and foremost, those families need to be notified. And I think that there needs to be an apology that needs to be made…