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Retailers Are Collecting Your Biometrics; Local Governments Fight Back

July 25, 2026 Victor Maung, Next City. , , , ,
When shoppers walk into a grocery store, they expect security cameras. Few expect the store to analyze their faces, eyes, and voices. Earlier this year, customers entering some Wegmans stores in New York City learned that the retailer was using facial recognition technology in its locations and storing customers’ biometric data. The disclosure, required under a 2021 city ordinance governing biometric collection, initially drew little attention beyond the city. But when the Buffalo-based Investigative Post asked whether Wegmans was also using the technology in Western New York stores, the company’s lack of response drew concern from local lawmakers.

FBI Seeks To End Privacy Protections From Biometrics Database

June 5, 2016 Jennifer Lynch, , www.eff.org , , , ,
By Jennifer Lynch for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Since 2008, the FBI has been assembling a massive database of biometric information on Americans. This database, called Next Generation Identification (NGI), includes fingerprints, face recognition, iris scans and palm prints—collected not just during arrests, but also from millions of Americans for non-criminal reasons like immigration, background checks, and state licensing requirements. NGI contains well over 100-million individual records that include multiple forms of biometric data as well as personal and biographic information. Although many people assume the FBI’s files only include fingerprints and other data associated with criminal activity, much of these records—nearly 50-million individual files—contain data collected for non-criminal purposes. Now the FBI wants to exempt this vast collection of data from basic requirements guaranteed under the federal Privacy Act—and it’s giving you only 21 business days to object. EFF, along with 44 other privacy, civil liberties, and immigrants’ rights organizations, sent a letter to the FBI demanding more time to respond.
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