Twelve of the largest drug stores in the U.S. sent shoppers’ sensitive health information to Facebook or other platforms, according to an investigation by The Markup and KFF Health News By: Darius Tahir for KFF Health News and Simon Fondrie-Teitler for The Markup This article was coreported with KFF Health News, a national newsroom that…
Cyberstalkers Win First Amendment Victory in the US Supreme Court
Lily Hay Newman reports: On Tuesday, a 7-2 decision by the US Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a man who repeatedly threatened a stranger online. Justice Elena Kagan wrote in the majority opinion that First Amendment free speech protections require such cases to show that online harassers or cyberstalkers were aware that their digital…
AI Arms Race’: Privacy Class Action Claims ChatGPT Is ‘Catastrophic Risk to Humanity’
Alaina Lancaster reports: A proposed class action lawsuit against Open AI and ChatGPT investor Microsoft Corp. is seeking a court order requiring the generative artificial-intelligence platform to stop its alleged secret “harvesting” of personal data, and to immediately put in place safeguards to protect society from “potentially catastrophic risk.” The 151-page complaint, surfaced by Law.com Radar…
Madison Square Garden Sued Over Facial ID Technology at Venues
Christopher Brown reports: Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. violated New York City’s biometric privacy ordinance and a state privacy law through a facial recognition system it used to provide security at its entertainment venues, a new proposed federal class action alleged. M. Ross Arnel alleged that MSG profited from its collection of biometric information from visitors…