Ethical Data Collection in the Spotlight over New Regulations
The California Consumer Privacy Act went into effect at the beginning of the year and enforcement will begin this summer. But certain Californians aren't waiting for the regulators to step in with fines.
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Facebook, for example, just settled a biometric privacy class action lawsuit for $550 million, said Ana Tagvoryan, co-chair of the class action defense practice and head of the privacy class action team at Blank Rome LLP, a Philadelphia-based law firm.
That settlement will put more pressure on lawmakers to create more stringent regulations around handing biometric data, she said. In fact, Illinois has already done so, she added.
"With the rise of facial recognition technology, biometric privacy is becoming more and more of a hot privacy issue," she said. "Even retail stores using cameras for facial recognition to prevent theft and fraud are being sued for illegal biometric data collection."
"Ethical Data Collection in the Spotlight over New Regulations," by Maria Korolov was published in TechTarget on February 13, 2020.