Jonathan Greig reports: Greece’s privacy authority has fined facial recognition company Clearview AI €20 million for violating parts of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) released a 22-page decision demanding Clearview AI stop processing biometric data on individuals in Greece and said the company must delete all the data it has…
Category: Breaches
Emerging Trends: Renewed Wave of Video Privacy Class Actions
Kathryn Cahoy, Eric Bosset, and Kanu Song of Covington and Burling write: Recent months have seen a growing trend of data privacy class actions asserting claims for alleged violations of federal and state video privacy laws. In this year alone, plaintiffs have filed dozens of new class actions in courts across the country asserting claims…
Student Who Hacked Over a Dozen Email and Snapchat Accounts of Female Students from the University of Puerto Rico Pleads Guilty to Cyberstalking
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – On July 13, 2022, Iván Santell-Velázquez pled guilty to cyberstalking before United States District Court Judge Silvia Carreño-Coll, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(2), announced W. Stephen Muldrow, U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. According to the parties’ stipulation of facts, Santell-Velázquez, while a student at the…
Amended Clearview AI Biometric Privacy Suit Names Additional Retail Defendants
Christina Tabacco reports: Late last week the plaintiffs, a half-dozen Illinois residents as well as a Californian and a New Yorker, filed an amended complaint against Clearview AI Inc., its leaders, an affiliated company, and retailers who purportedly used its searchable biometric database. The 60-page revised filing says that the facial recognition software company and its founders…