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TechREG® Chronicle – Biometric Privacy Rights

TechREG® Chronicle April 2024

Dear Readers, Reportedly over 250 Hollywood movies feature the use (or more likely, misuse) of biometric identification technology in their plotlines. In short, despite its obvious potential for good, biometric technology has also long been the fuel of dystopian nightmares; and hence, as its adoption grows more widespread in the...

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