In some situations, border officials can now go even further. The Department of Homeland Security has the authority to ...

A new biometric data collection system implemented on December 26 means travellers will be subjected to facial recognition ...

Biometric building access controls have become increasingly popular among security-minded residential and commercial property managers, but the legal risks of collecting and using this data are ...

Congressional members requested guardrails, transparency and oversight in a letter to the secretary of Homeland Security and ...

On Friday, Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke of New York’s 9th Congressional District galvanized bipartisan concern about the ...

Trump's administration has proposed a policy that would allow officials to collect "biometrics" from illegal immigrants ...

Meta has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the state of Texas in order to resolve a lawsuit that accused the company of illegally using facial recognition technology. The suit alleges that Meta used this ...

Amazon is asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit accusing the company of failing to comply with a New York City law requiring companies to notify consumers about their collection of biometric data. The ...

Companies can now accrue stunning amounts of intimate data about their employees’ bodies. Some might collect biometric data such as fingerprints and retina scans as part of efforts to improve security ...

Debates around protecting personal data, including biometrics, have intensified, as public and private entities increasingly deploy biometric technologies in contexts like policing, public spaces and ...