Ross Todd reports: Facebook Inc. has agreed to pay $550 million to settle claims that a feature on the social media platform runs afoul of an Illinois law regarding how companies collect and store biometric identifiers such as fingerprints and facial recognition data. Facebook’s chief financial officer Dave Wehner announced the proposed deal in an earnings…
Category: Laws
Clearview’s Face Surveillance Shows Why We Need a Strong Federal Consumer Privacy Law
Jamie Williams writes on EFF: The New York Times’ recent story on Clearview AI, maker of a secretive facial recognition app that markets its product to law enforcement, has raised critical questions about what can be done to protect our privacy online. Clearview claims to have amassed a dataset of over three billion face images by scraping websites…
“Totally Clueless”: Dating Apps Grindr And Okcupid Reported For Breach Of Privacy Rules
Cameron Abbot and Max Evans of K&L Gates write: Dating apps, for many young people, are a fact of life. Meeting someone these days in real-life rather than through a simple swipe right appears to have become the exception, belonging more to any number of 90s teen “romcoms” than it does to real life. According…
Wisconsin at center of looming federal battle over health records
Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council, writes: On one side are regulators hoping to foster easier exchange of health data, some patient advocates and some researchers and healthcare app developers. On the other side are major health records firms such as Verona-based Epic, the American Medical Association, some healthcare systems, people worried about…