Samantha Cole reports: This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. A woman is suing Microsoft and two major U.S. sex toy retailers with claims that their websites are tracking users without their consent, despite promising they wouldn’t do that. In a complaint filed on June 25 in the…
Category: Breaches
Clearview AI Used Your Face. Now You May Get a Stake in the Company.
Kashmir Hill reports: A facial recognition start-up, accused of invasion of privacy in a class-action lawsuit, has agreed to a settlement, with a twist: Rather than cash payments, it would give a 23 percent stake in the company to Americans whose faces are in its database. Clearview AI, which is based in New York, scraped…
Google Database Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents
Joseph Cox reports: Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents, according to a copy of an internal Google database which tracks six years worth of potential privacy and…
Spyware found on US hotel check-in computers
Zack Whittaker reports: A consumer-grade spyware app has been found running on the check-in systems of at least three Wyndham hotels across the United States, TechCrunch has learned. The app, called pcTattletale, stealthily and continually captured screenshots of the hotel booking systems, which contained guest details and customer information. Thanks to a security flaw in…