Alphabet Inc is pushing efforts to roll back the most comprehensive biometric privacy law in the US, even as the company and its peers face heightened scrutiny after the unauthorised sharing of data at Facebook Inc.
While Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg were publicly apologising this month for failing to protect users’ information, Google’s lobbyists were drafting measures to de-fang an Illinois law recognised as the most rigorous consumer privacy statute in the country. Their ambition: to strip language from a decade-old policy that regulates the use of fingerprints, iris scans and facial recognition technology, and insert a loophole for companies embracing the use of biometrics.
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