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With no federal facial recognition law, states rush to fill void
Nearly two dozen states have passed laws regulating how tech companies collect data from our faces, eyes and voices. It comes as Congress has yet to pass any facial recognition technology.
toggle caption Seth Wenig/Associated Press States are increasingly clamping down on how tech companies digitally scan and analyze our most sensitive and potentially lucrative commodity: the faces, eyeballs and other "biometric" data of millions of people. While facial recognition technology is unregulated at the federal level, 23 stateshave now passed or expanded laws to restrict the mass scraping of biometric data, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. "And that can lead to these big class-action settlements, and there are legitimate critiques of them, with class members often getting very little money, and lawyers getting rich, but they can be genuinely effective at shaping companies' attitudes about personal information and generate corporate change," Karanicolas said.
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