U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is required by various congressional and presidential mandates to implement a biometric entry/exit system. As part of our ongoing efforts to safeguard the Nation’s border and facilitate legitimate travel and trade, CBP published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register on November 19, 2020, which proposes that all…
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The CBP Used COVID As An Excuse To Install Facial Recognition At 76 Airports
Joe Cadillic writes: A recent DHS report titled the “CBP Trade and Travel Report” reads like an instruction manual on how to exploit the public’s fear of COVID. The report is a perfect example of how the Feds used the pandemic as an excuse to install facial recognition cameras across the country. The report starts out by…
You Have Heard of the BIPA, But What About the GIPA?
Joseph J. Lazzarotti and Jody Kahn Mason of JacksonLewis write: Enacted in 2008, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, 740 ILCS 14 et seq. (the “BIPA”), went largely unnoticed until a few years ago when a handful of cases sparked a flood of class action litigation over the collection, use, storage, and disclosure of biometric information….
California AG Becerra Tweets Endorsement for a Universal Opt-Out Tool
Taylor A. Bloom and Alan L. Friel of BakerHostetler write: On Jan. 28, California Attorney General Becerra tweeted his support for a newly developed privacy tool that may function as a means for universal opt out. “#CCPA requires businesses to treat a user-enabled global privacy control as a legally valid consumer request to opt out…