Antitrust and Consumer Protection
Competition: 2016, Vol 25, No. 2
Content
- California Online Privacy Laws: the Battle For Personal Data
- Chair's Column
- "Clear and Conspicuous" Disclosures Between Celebrity Endorsers and Advertisers On Social Media Websites
- Comments On Proposed Update On Intellectual Property Licensing Guidelines
- Dispatches From the West Coast: Federalism, Competition, and Comments On the United States' Proposed Update To the Antitrust Guidelines For Licensing Intellectual Property
- Editor's Column
- Exceptions To the Rule: Considering the Impact of Non-practicing Entities and Cooperative Regulatory Processes In the Update To the Antitrust Guidelines For the Licensing of Intellectual Property
- Ftc Privacy and Data Security Enforcement and Guidance Under Section 5
- Home Run or Strikeout? the Unsettled Relationship Between the Sports Broadcasting Act and Cable Programming
- Masthead
- Never Say Never: the Ninth Circuit's Misguided Categorical Approach To Individual Damages Questions When Assessing Rule 23(B)(3) Predominance
- The Rapidly Changing Landscape of Private Global Antitrust Litigation: Increasingly Serious Implications For U.S. Practitioners
- Biometric Privacy Litigation: Is Unique Personally Identifying Information Obtained From a Photograph Biometric Information?
BIOMETRIC PRIVACY LITIGATION: IS UNIQUE PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BIOMETRIC INFORMATION?
By Natasha Kohne and Kamran Salour1
I. FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY:THE ABILITY TO PERSONALLY IDENTIFY SOMEONE FROM A PHOTOGRAPH
A. Social Media Sites Store Millions of Individualized Faceprints Generated From Photographs
Millions of people upload their photographs to social media sites such as Google and Facebook every day.2 Google Photos touts more than 200 million monthly active users.3 Shutterfly’s ThisLife database stores roughly 18 billion images.4 And Facebook claims that it has already uploaded 250 billion user photos, with 350 million more uploads daily.5