Nicole Santa Cruz reports: Nearly four years after a woman ended an unwanted pregnancy with abortion pills obtained at a Phoenix clinic, she finds herself mired in an ongoing lawsuit over that decision. A judge allowed the woman’s ex-husband to establish an estate for the embryo, which had been aborted in its seventh week of…
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Irish Data Protection Commission Moves to Block Meta Transfers
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On July 7, 2022, the Irish Data Protection Commission (the “DPC”) sent a draft decision to other EU data protection authorities, proposing to block Meta’s transfers of personal data from the EU to the United States. The DPC commenced an inquiry to assess the legality of Meta’s EU-U.S. transfers in the…
Clearview AI fined $20 million, banned from processing biometric data in Greece after GDPR violations
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…
A New Attack Can Unmask Anonymous Users on Any Major Browser
Lily Hay Newman reports: Everyone from advertisers and marketers to government-backed hackers and spyware makers wants to identify and track users across the web. And while a staggering amount of infrastructure is already in place to do exactly that, the appetite for data and new tools to collect it has proved insatiable. With that reality…