Civil Litigation,
Law Practice
Aug. 28, 2017
Lots, and lots, and lots of pictures... and faceprints
With the ubiquity of camera-enabled phones — more precisely, the ease at which they allow users to snap, share and store digital photographs — individuals have amassed an enormous and ever-growing database of digital photos.
Kamran Salour
Partner
Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP
Email: kamran.salour@troutman.com
Kamran is a partner in the Consumer Financial Services practice and is a member of the Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy group at Troutman Pepper.
People take pictures — lots of them. And each year they take more. According to the New York Times, it is projected that in 2017 alone, people will take 1.3 trillion photographs. For context, a Deloitte study found that in 2000, individuals took 80 billion photos, then an all-time high. The reason for this substantial surge is simple: the ubiquity of camera-enabled phones.
With the ubiquity of camera-enabled phones — more precisely,...
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