“Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., is lobbying to roll back photo provisions in Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)
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BIPA … allows people the right to sue companies for using biometric data without consent.”
#SurveillanceCapitalismhttps://twitter.com/BiometricUpdate/status/989265668137627648 …
No one’s ignoring government surveillance. Quite on the contrary, all sorts of groups from civil liberties to libertarians want curbs on government power for a variety of reasons. It’s only recently we’re even discussing corporate surveillance and the two aren’t unrelated either.