State lawmakers are considering changes to an internet privacy law that recently led to a $650 million settlement between Facebook and more than 1 million
On January 6, 2021, a bipartisan group of New York legislators
proposed the
, a new law that would
provide for protection of consumers biometric information. The
bill would require entities that possess biometric information or
identifiers to obtain specific consumer consent for collecting,
capturing, purchasing or trading such information, and would be
privately-actionable as well.
Under the bill, biometric identifiers include: a retina or
iris scan, fingerprint, voiceprint, or scan of hand or face
geometry. Biometric information means any information,
regardless of how it is captured, converted, stored, or shared,
based on an individual s biometric identifier used to identify
an individual. Entities that possess such information would
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The DePaulia
Ella Lee, Print Managing Editor|March 8, 2021
A class action complaint brought against DePaul claims the university has been illegally collecting, using and disclosing students’ biometric information without their consent via technology used to proctor remote exams.
The tool used by the university to proctor online exams is Respondus Monitor. Described to the Washington Post as akin to “spyware,” proctoring software like Respondus Monitor collects data from facial-recognition and eye monitoring data to keystroke patterns and camera and microphone recordings, according to the lawsuit.
“Through Respondus Monitor, DePaul collects, captures and stores everything from a student’s facial features to their voice through a web portal accessed through the student’s personal device,” the lawsuit reads. “Using the Respondus Monitor tool, DePaul is able to collect and aggregate information on all aspects of a student’s life.”
A recent case extended the notion that federal law precludes Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act BIPA claims when a collective bargaining agreement must be interpreted.