More and more organizations are embedding biometric authentication systems into their services. From smartphones to banking, fingerprinting, iris scans, and facial recognition are all on the rise. True, they can provide a new layer of protection and authentication, but if compromised, a user can’t change her face like a password. “Whether biometric technology will thrive or meet its demise depends not only on the security of the technology, but also whether the U.S. legal system will adapt to provide the privacy protections necessary for consumers to use it and for companies to invest in its development,” writes IAPP Westin Fellow Anna Myers, CIPM, CIPP/US. In this post for Privacy Tech, Myers explores whether the U.S. legal system can, in fact, adapt to these burgeoning technologies, or whether it needs to at all.
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