Top Class Actions reports: Shutterfly has agreed to $6.75 million settlement benefiting certain Illinois consumers who say they appear in photos on the site in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The Class includes Illinois residents who appear in a photograph maintained on Shutterfly at any time between June 11, 2014, and the date…
Category: U.S.
Maine law restricts facial recognition technology statewide
AP reports: A bill touted as the country’s strictest statewide regulation on the use of facial recognition technology has become law in Maine. While several states regulate facial recognition as a surveillance tool, the Maine law represents a broad prohibition of the technology at the state, county and municipal government levels, with limited exceptions for…
Privacy Watchdog Board’s Secret Report on N.S.A. System Fell Short, Member Says
Charlie Savage reports: A member of a civil liberties watchdog board that investigates the nation’s security programs criticized on Tuesday a major — but still secret — report by his organization about a National Security Agency surveillance-related system, portraying the effort as shoddy and a missed opportunity. The official, Travis LeBlanc, is a Democratic appointee…
A student’s rape went unsolved for 14 years. Police say the suspect gave his DNA to a genealogy database.
Katie Shepherd reports on another cold case that was solved when police used a commercial genealogy database to search for a match for the suspect. This case was an alleged rape in 2007 and The case might have remained a mystery if Jared T. Vaughn had not voluntarily provided a sample of his DNA to…