Mark Townsend reports: Facebook has dramatically agreed to settle a lawsuit seeking damages for allowing Cambridge Analytica access to the private data of tens of millions of users, four years after the Observer exposed the scandal that mired the tech giant in repeated controversy. A court filing reveals that Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has in principle settled for an…
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Children’s App Settles with CARU Over COPPA and Guideline Violation Allegations
Liisa Thomas of Sheppard Mullin writes: Firefly Games agreed to take corrective action in response to the Children’s Advertising Review Unit’s allegations that the company had violated COPPA by inaccurately (and confusingly) explaining its privacy practices. The app in question, LOL Surprise! Room Makeover, featured dolls and characters intended for children and animated characters. It also included content directed…
New Yorkers protest against illegal forced quarantine policy
Jeremy Loffredo writes that instead of just accepting the court’s ruling that overturned a state law that empowered the state to detain and quarantine anyone suspected of having a communicable disease, the state is appealing the ruling. By appealing the court’s decision, the state is signaling that even with the supposed COVID public health crisis…
Google sued over access to millions of NHS blood tests
Gareth Corfield reports: A Google-owned artificial intelligence company may have gained access to NHS blood test results without patients’ knowledge, according to a High Court lawsuit over 1.6m people’s health records. DeepMind, which was bought by Google in 2014, may have been handed the results of blood tests that were “processed by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation…