It looks like Bloomberg beat the FTC to breaking the news. David McLaughlin and Daniel Stoller report: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved a record privacy settlement against Facebook Inc. requiring the social-media company to pay about $5 billion to resolve an investigation stemming from the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. The FTC’s settlement was approved…
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Google is investigating the source of voice data leak, plans to update its privacy policies
Sarah Perez reports: Google has responded to a report this week from Belgian public broadcaster VRT NWS, which revealed that contractors were given access to Google Assistant voice recordings, including those which contained sensitive information — like addresses, conversations between parents and children, business calls and others containing all sorts of private information. As a…
Florida’s statewide student data project alarms privacy groups
Katya Schwenk reports: Florida is amassing student data from social media, law enforcement, and school districts across the state for a database set to launch August 1 — an unprecedented initiative to prevent school gun violence. But civil rights advocacy groups say the database will put students at risk. […] Florida is amassing student data…
Alexa Now Gives U.K. Users N.H.S. Medical Advice
Iliana Magra reports: “Alexa, how do I treat a migraine?” When British users ask Amazon’s voice assistant system for medical advice, it can respond as of Wednesday with the authority of an organization once described as “the closest thing the English have to a religion”: the country’s National Health Service. The collaboration, described by Britain’s…