Onondaga County consumers may soon learn they’ve been paying an extra fee at certain businesses: a scan of their own faces.
County Legislators will introduce a new law on Tuesday that would require businesses to disclose if they are using biometric surveillance cameras to scan customers’ faces and store that biometric identifier information. The legislation would impose financial penalties on companies that fail to disclose their collection of biometric data.
If the disclosure law makes it through the Public Safety Committee and is approved by the legislature, Central New York consumers may learn that some of the businesses they frequent have quietly been collecting and storing scans of their faces and facial features…