{"id":252,"date":"2015-08-20T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2015\/08\/20\/legaltrend-how-secure-are-your-biometrics-on-facebook\/"},"modified":"2015-08-20T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T18:39:00","slug":"legaltrend-how-secure-are-your-biometrics-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/legaltrend-how-secure-are-your-biometrics-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"LegalTrend: How Secure Are Your Biometrics on Facebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy class action lawsuits in Illinois assert that\u00a0Facebook violates a 2008 Illinois law protecting a peron&#8217;s biometric information with its facial recognition tagging software.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The nuts and bolts of the Illinois law:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Biometric Information Privacy Act\u00a0makes it illegal for a company to:<\/li>\n<li>collect or access customers&#8217; biometric identifiers\n<ul>\n<li>without first informing them in writing about what&#8217;s being collected,<\/li>\n<li>how the biometrics are\u00a0being used,and<\/li>\n<li>how long biometrics are\u00a0being stored<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0requires companies get a written release from those whose data is being collecting<\/li>\n<li>statutory damages of $1,000 for negligent violations, and $5,000 for those that are &#8220;intentional and reckless.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecorder.com\/id=1202735193650\/Facebook-Readies-for-Battle-Over-Biometrics?kw=Facebook%20Readies%20for%20Battle%20Over%20Biometrics&amp;cn=20150819&amp;pt=Afternoon%20Update&amp;src=EMC-Email&amp;et=editorial&amp;bu=Corporate%20Counsel&amp;slreturn=20150720143841\">The Recorder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy class action lawsuits in Illinois assert that\u00a0Facebook violates a 2008 Illinois law protecting a peron&#8217;s biometric information with its facial recognition tagging software.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The nuts and bolts of the Illinois law:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Biometric Information Privacy Act\u00a0makes it illegal for a company to:<\/li>\n<li>collect or access customers&#8217; biometric identifiers\n<ul>\n<li>without first informing them in writing about what&#8217;s being collected,<\/li>\n<li>how the biometrics are\u00a0being used,and<\/li>\n<li>how long biometrics are\u00a0being&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-privacy","category-legal-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}