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5 Key Takeaways | Biometrics: Identifying and Mitigating Legal Risks
On Thursday, March 20, a federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois granted final approval to a settlement agreement under which Clearview AI (Clearview) agreed to pay an estimated $51.75 million to a nationwide class...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On August 9, 2024, Illinois joined Colorado on the list of states that have enacted legislation specifically imposing obligations and restrictions on employers’ use of artificial intelligence to make...more
Keypoint: The Texas Attorney General reached a $1.4 billion settlement with Meta over its alleged violations of Texas’ biometric privacy law. On July 30, 2024, the Texas Attorney General announced that it has reached a $1.4...more
Cyber, Privacy, and Technology Report - Welcome to your monthly rundown of all things cyber, privacy, and technology, where we highlight all the happenings you may have missed....more
The Current Status of Privacy Laws Across the United States - Unlike the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union (EU), the United States does not have a nationwide comprehensive data privacy law....more
In this edition, key themes include creators and consumers seeking more control and protection over how their content is used to train AI models (whether under copyright law or privacy laws), and governments grappling with...more
Generative AI is already an integral part of the automotive industry, playing a significant role in enhancing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and making it possible for drivers to interact with their vehicles....more
Keypoint: Last week the Indiana legislature passed a consumer data privacy bill. Below is the fourteenth weekly update on the status of proposed state privacy legislation in 2023. The big news last week was the Indiana...more
Keypoint: Last week the Washington Senate passed the My Health My Data Act, the Arkansas legislature passed the Social Media Safety Act, and the Texas House passed the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act....more
The federal government has been trying to reach a consensus on data privacy and thus far has failed to pass legislation. On June 3, 2022, a bipartisan draft bill, titled the American Data Privacy and Protection Act was...more
Facial recognition technology has become increasingly popular in recent years in the employment and consumer space (e.g. employee access, passport check-in systems, payments on smartphones), and in particular during the...more
In the wake of an alarming exposé published by The New York Times in January, Clearview AI, Inc., a New York startup, faces a slew of lawsuits. Since the article’s publication, the Vermont Attorney General filed a complaint...more