Christopher Brown reports: Onfido Inc. got preliminary court approval for a $28.5 million deal to settle a proposed federal class action alleging it violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act through the identity verification services it provided to website and app customers. Fredy Sosa and Rohith Amruthur alleged that Onfido collected and stored their biometric…
Category: Laws
Nationwide push to require social media age verification raises questions about privacy, industry standards
Tonya Riley reports: Lawmakers in Washington and in statehouses around the country are seeking to compel tech companies to prove the age of their users, part of a growing national effort to better protect young children from the harms of the internet. But requiring age-verifying technology to keep teenagers away from potentially harmful content online…
Mobile World Congress Organizer GSMA Slapped With GDPR Fine Of €200,000 By Spanish Data Protection Watchdog
Niharika Verma reports: The Spanish data protection watchdog has imposed a fine of €200,000 (~$224k) on the GSM Association (GSMA), the organizer of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2021, for breaching privacy rules. The violation was related to the collection of biometric data of show attendees, including the implementation of a facial recognition system called BREEZZ….
Sending personal data, receiving non-personal data: Recent EU judgment reinforces the power of pseudonymization
Gonzalo F. Gállego, Santiago de Ampuero, and Juan Ramón Robles of Hogan Lovells write: A new EU General Court ruling has nuanced the threshold between pseudonymous and anonymous data. In particular, it clarifies that supervisory authorities need to carry out a “test” to assess whether data can be deemed personal data or not, opening the…