From The Future of Privacy Forum: Entering 2024, the United States now stands alone as the sole G20 nation without a comprehensive, national framework governing the collection and use of personal data. With bipartisan efforts to enact federal privacy legislation once again languishing in Congress, state-level activity on privacy dramatically accelerated in 2023. As the…
Long-running Clearview AI class action biometric privacy case settles
Suzanne Smalley reports: Facial recognition technology company Clearview AI has reached a settlement with plaintiffs in a class-action privacy lawsuit after a long court battle, according to a court docket entry filed November 30. The terms of the settlement are not yet public. The docket entry from an Illinois federal court noted that the parties…
GW Law School Launches the GW Center for Law & Technology
Privacy law scholar and professor Dan Solove sends this great news along: I’m excited to share a press release from GW Law School announcing our new GW Center for Law & Technology. Through the Center, we’re building out our privacy and tech curriculum and activities, including: We created a new JD Concentration in Privacy, Data Security, and Technology….
AI and Mass Spying
Bruce Schneier writes: Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide a bug in your home or car, tap your phone, and listen to what you said. At the end, I would get a report of all the conversations you had…