{"id":35961,"date":"2019-01-01T07:49:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T12:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35961"},"modified":"2019-01-01T07:49:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T12:49:17","slug":"gizmodo-google-wins-lawsuit-over-face-scanning-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35961","title":{"rendered":"Gizmodo: Google Wins Lawsuit Over Face-Scanning Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gizmodo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/judge-oks-google-facial-recognition-software\/\">Google Wins Lawsuit Over Face-Scanning Technology<\/a> by Lorraine Bailey:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CHICAGO (CN) \u2013 A federal judge ruled Saturday that Google does not violate Illinois privacy laws by automatically creating a face template when Android users upload photos taken on their smartphone to the company\u2019s cloud-based photo service.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois\u2019s Biometric Information Privacy Act, enacted in 2008, was the first state law in the U.S. to regulate the collection of biometric information, which includes facial-recognition data, and remains the only law that allows private individuals to sue for damages stemming from a violation.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Illinois has become a testing ground for many new uses of biometric information by social media companies, photo apps, and employers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gizmodo: Google Wins Lawsuit Over Face-Scanning Technology by Lorraine Bailey:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35962,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35961\/revisions\/35962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}