Two recent decisions by Québec’s data protection authority, the Commission d’accès à l’information (the “CAI”), should serve as cautionary tales for any business contemplating the deployment of ...

Increasing use The use of biometric data is increasing throughout the government. For the past two years, the Defense Department has been storing in a database images of fingerprints, irises and faces ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Before he starts work every morning, Oscar Carranza waves to a guard, swipes a magnetized card through a computer, and places his hand in a biometric scanner that traces the contours of ...

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly is considering a bill that would create a national biometric database of the country’s residents. Deputies have the opportunity to ...