Erie County lawmakers push new rules on facial recognition and biometric data<\/a><\/p>\nPeople started talking about this after a New York Post article over the weekend reported signs at Wegmans in New York City telling customers their biometric data was being collected and stored while they shopped.<\/p>\n
New York City has a law requiring businesses to inform customers when they are collecting this data by posting a sign at the door. Erie County does not have that requirement.<\/p>\n
Now, county legislators are considering laws to deal with this issue.<\/p>\n
“I think this is just about transparency. What this law would do, would require any commercial business that is using that biometric data to just post a sign outside of their facility saying we are collecting this data just so that consumers are aware,” said Erie County Legislator Lindsay Lorigo.<\/p>\n
“What I want to make sure is that when you are an Erie County resident, and you go into a store, and somebody is taking your biometric data, like facial scans, finger prints, voice scans, that you’re aware of it,” said Erie County Legislator Lawrence Dupre.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz wants to go a step further. He posted on Facebook that he finds it troubling stores are using facial recognition and other biometric technology to collect customer data. He is calling for a local law to prohibit any public retailer from collecting and storing this data, calling it a serious invasion of privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The laws would cover how and when stores can collect your biometric data. BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 Erie County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-81601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}