Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On May 24, 2024, Governor Tim Walz signed H.F. 4757 into law, enacting the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (“MNCDPA” or “Act”). The MNCDPA will take effect on July 31, 2025. Applicability The MNCDPA applies to: Legal entities that conduct business in Minnesota or produce products or services that are targeted to residents…
Clearview AI Used Your Face. Now You May Get a Stake in the Company.
Kashmir Hill reports: A facial recognition start-up, accused of invasion of privacy in a class-action lawsuit, has agreed to a settlement, with a twist: Rather than cash payments, it would give a 23 percent stake in the company to Americans whose faces are in its database. Clearview AI, which is based in New York, scraped…
Migration 5: The truth about the shadowy scheme to check identities
The independent research that informs this reporting was funded through a Fulbright scholarship undertaken at Georgetown University in Washington DC. The views and information do not represent the Fulbright Programme, the US government or the New Zealand Government. By Gill Bonnett of RNZ What started as a scheme to check the identities of a few thousand asylum…
Not to be cynical, but “secure check-in” is just a potential privacy or data security breach, isn’t it?
InterSystems and CLEAR Partner to Transform the Patient and Provider Experience with Enhanced Identity Verification Technology CLEAR Partners with Wellstar Health System to Launch Seamless and Secure Check-in Across Locations IRS defends use of biometric verification for online FOIA filers Thanks to Joe Cadillic for submitting the above items.