Steven Stransky writes: On July 9, the New York City biometric data protection law entered into force with anticipated impacts on local businesses and restaurants, many of which are still addressing COVID-19 health and safety protocols. The law requires certain businesses to post formal notices if they collect biometric data, and it expressly prohibits them from using…
Category: Laws
Pressley, Clarke, Tlaib Reintroduce Bill to Ban Facial Recognition Technology in Public Housing
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Yvette Clarke (NY-09), and Rashida Tlaib (MI-13) announced the reintroduction of the No Biometric Barriers to Housing Act of 2021 (bill text), their bill to prohibit the usage of facial and biometric recognition in most federally funded public housing and require the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to submit a report to…
Reserved to the states…. some news on state level
Arizona Rebuffs Biden’s ‘Door-To-Door’ Vaccination Strategy, Blasts Admin For ‘Severe Breach Of Privacy’ Tim Pearce reports: Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich expressed “great alarm” at President Joe Biden’s plan to send teams door-to-door to promote the COVID-19 vaccine to hesitant Americans on Tuesday, saying that the president’s strategy may be a violation of privacy. Brnovich sent…
‘Deeply alarmed’: China now ahead of U.S. on privacy law
Alexandra S. Levine reports: The Covid-19 pandemic has heightened digital surveillance around the world. But in China, where citizens had already been subjected to mass tracking by the government, the crisis helped expand an authoritarian system that has been refined and cemented as the norm. Yet, as the Chinese surveillance state grows, so does public pushback….