Privacy News & Issues
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following press release today: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a $1.4 billion settlement with Meta (formerly known as Facebook) to stop the company’s practice of capturing and using the personal biometric data of millions of Texans without the authorization required by law. This settlement is the…
Today’s Risky Biz News points out a X (Twitter) privacy issue. Your data can now be used by default to train grok (AI), and they haven’t even announced this change. A user sounded the alarm: Twitter just activated a setting by default for everyone that gives them the right to use your data to train…
Michael Gennaro reports: Google argued at a motion for summary judgment hearing Thursday afternoon that a proposed class action filed by Google users over data collection is meritless. At issue in the case is the Web and App Activity toggle in Android device’s settings. Turning the toggle off prevents future web and app activity being…
From EPIC.org: Last week, the Ninth Circuit heard oral argumentheard arguments in Google v. Calhoun, a case about whether users really consented to Google’s collecting and sharing their data when Google’s own published policies said contradictory things about those practices. EPIC’s amicus brief asserted that Google cannot argue that consumers reasonably consented to its data practices when the…