A customer looks at a laptop computer for sale last year. Comprehensive consumer privacy laws are taking effect in eight states this year. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) This year, comprehensive privacy ...

States are increasingly clamping down on how tech companies digitally scan and analyze our most sensitive and potentially lucrative commodity: the faces, eyeballs and other "biometric" data of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. In February 2025, U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Harris of the ...

Google has changed how it handles digital fingerprints, leading privacy advocates to warn of increased surveillance, identity theft, and discrimination. The company positioned the changes as routine ...