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…
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Meta Hit With Complaint in Norway for Training AI on User Data
Stephen Treloar reports: Meta Platforms Inc. was hit with a Norwegian complaint over its plans to use the images and posts of users on Facebook and Instagram to train artificial intelligence models. The process to opt-out breaches strict EU data protection rules and “has been made deliberately cumbersome by using deceptive design patterns and vague wording,”…
As markup nears, knives come out for comprehensive data privacy legislation
Suzanne Smalley reports: With the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) weeks away from a markup, critics of the bill’s language are ratcheting up pressure on congressional leaders to change the landmark federal comprehensive data privacy legislation. On Monday, a coalition of business associations and big tech advocacy groups sent House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris…
Texas Attorney General Opens Investigation into Car Manufacturers’ Collection and Sale of Drivers’ Data
Libbie Canter, Jennifer Johnson, Lily Katharine Hines, Christina Higgins, and Jorge Ortiz of Covington and Burling write: On June 6, the Texas Attorney General published a news release announcing that the Attorney General has opened an investigation into several car manufacturers. The news release states that the investigation was opened “after widespread reporting that [car manufacturers] have…