Privacy Guides
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
While facial recognition and fingerprints are some of the most commonly used features, gait analysis, analysing a person’s walk, and Amazon’s "palm signatures" also use biometric data.
Apple was one of the first companies to move to the commercial use of biometric data in 2013 with Touch ID, giving users the possibility to use their fingerprint to unlock their phones.
"Biometric data skips some of the problems that we have with passwords," said Melissa Goldstein, associate professor at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health.
Amazon, for instance, boasts about its palm payment system One, which is "100 times more secure than scanning two irises," and the company hasn’t seen a single false positive "after millions of interactions among hundreds of thousands of enrolled identities".
"Valid consent is a specific requirement of the GDPR," said Felix Mikolasch, a data protection lawyer at the non-profit NOYB, the European Centre for Digital Rights.
Last year, the French, Greek, Italian and UK data authorities each fined Clearview, a US company creating facial recognition databases from images on the Internet, including on social media, because it breached GDPR.
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