Legislators in Maryland on Wednesday heard testimony from supporters and detractors of a bill that would set stringent privacy requirements on companies that collect biometric signifiers, including fingerprints, voiceprints, facial scans and retinal images from their customers.
House Bill 259, which was brought up for debate by the Maryland House of Delegates’ Economic Matters Committee, would allow companies doing business in the state to only use those biometric technologies if they get written consent from customers, set firm calendars for retention and destruction of that data and block companies from conditioning service on data collection.
