{"id":2697,"date":"2022-10-20T21:52:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2022-10-20T21:52:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:52:39","slug":"collecting-biometric-data-of-texans-by-tech-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/collecting-biometric-data-of-texans-by-tech-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Collecting Biometric Data of Texans by Tech Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is happening? The Texas Attorney General announced a lawsuit against Google for unlawfully capturing and using the biometric data of millions of Texans without properly obtaining their informed consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? Texas has a Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act that prohibits the capturing of biometric data for &#8220;exploitation of the personal information of Texans for its own commercial interests.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/news\/releases\/paxton-sues-google-its-unauthorized-capture-and-use-biometric-data-and-violation-texans-privacy\">Pax\u00adton Sues Google for its Unau\u00adtho\u00adrized Cap\u00adture and Use of Bio\u00admet\u00adric Data and Vio\u00adla\u00adtion of Tex\u00adans\u2019 Privacy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening? The Texas Attorney General announced a lawsuit against Google for unlawfully capturing and using the biometric data of millions of Texans without properly obtaining their informed consent. Why is this important? Texas has a Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act that prohibits the capturing of biometric data for &#8220;exploitation of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}