Steve Robinson reports: A public high school in Maine is among the first in the state to adopt biometric scanning technology to track student attendance. Caribou High School in Aroostook County (RSU 39) has contracted with IdentiMetrics to implement a system that scans students’ fingerprints, stores the data, and creates a tracking system so that…
Maine Voter List Privacy Law Quashed by First Circuit
Allie Reed reports: Maine’s voter file containing the names, addresses, birth years, and voting history of 1.1 million registered voters is a public record that can be reproduced despite the state’s privacy concerns, the First Circuit said Friday. The National Voter Registration Act, which subjects records related to voter list maintenance to public inspection, overrides…
Trends in AI: U.S. State Legislative Developments
Yaron Dori, August Gweon, and Jayne Ponder of Covington and Burling write: U.S. policymakers have continued to express interest in legislation to regulate artificial intelligence (“AI”), particularly at the state level. Although comprehensive AI bills and frameworks in Congress have received substantial attention, state legislatures also have been moving forward with their own efforts to…
Article: Artificial Intelligence and Privacy
Here’s the abstract of another thought-provoking article by law professor Dan Solove: This Article aims to establish a foundational understanding of the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and privacy, outlining the current problems AI poses to privacy and suggesting potential directions for the law’s evolution in this area. Thus far, few commentators have explored the…