State Lawmaker Pushes To Protect Our Faces, Voices from Identity Theft

DENVER (CBS4)– From facial recognition to unlock smartphones to an iris scan to skip airport security lines and voice commands to access bank accounts, the use of biometric data has exploded. State Rep. Alex Valdez says privacy laws haven’t kept pace with technology. (credit: CBS)
“Most people have heard someone say, ‘I was just talking about something and it popped up on my feed.’ That’s biometric data,” says Valdez.
Just as our fingerprints are unique