From the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), May 24: Brussels, 24 May – During its latest plenary, the EDPB adopted an Opinion on the use of facial recognition technologies by airport operators and airline companies to streamline the passenger flow at airports*. This Article 64(2) Opinion, following a request from the French Data Protection Authority, addresses…
From the Data Protection Commission: The Data Protection Commission has today launched its Annual Report for 2023. Highlights of the 2023 Annual report include: The DPC issued 19 finalised decisions resulting in administrative fines totalling €1.55 billion, along with multiple reprimands and compliance orders being imposed, including: In May 2023, the DPC announced the conclusion to…
Lindsey Tonsager, Libbie Canter, and Priya Leeds of Covington and Burling write: Yesterday, both houses of Illinois’ legislature passed S.B. 2979, a significant amendment to the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The bill states that an entity that, in more than one instance, obtains the same biometric identifier or biometric information from the same…
EPIC writes: The Chairs of the Joint Committee on Advanced Information Technology, the Internet, and Cybersecurity of the Massachusetts General Court, Representative Tricia Farley-Bouvier and Senator Michael Moore, announced today that the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act (“MDPA”) had been reported favorably out of Committee. If passed, the MDPA would be the strongest state privacy law in…