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Facebook is giving $397 payments to Illinois residents as part of its facial-recognition lawsuit settlement

TechSpot

The suit, filed in 2015, alleged that Facebook's retired photo-tagging feature violated Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), which forbids the collection of identifiable biometric data without a person's explicit consent. This includes the likes of fingerprints, retina scans, and facial geometry.

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Facebook is backing away from facial recognition. Meta isn’t.

Vox

Facebook says it will stop using facial recognition for photo-tagging. Meta is also keeping DeepFace, the sophisticated algorithm that powers its photo-tagging facial recognition feature. “We That facial recognition for photo-tagging is leaving Facebook, also known as the “ big blue app ,” is certainly significant.

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New CEO Positioning RF Code as an Internet of Things Play for Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

Ed Healy says value of the data the company''s solutions collect far outweighs the value of its RFID tags for data center asset management Read More. Featured Internet of Things'

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Texas is suing Meta over Facebook facial recognition

The Verge

The lawsuit, filed today in state district court , claims Meta’s Facebook photo tagging system violated the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier (CUBI) Act. The CUBI restrictions , which were passed in 2009, require obtaining informed consent before collecting biometric data like facial geometry.

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Accelerating Industry 4.0 at warp speed: The role of GenAI at the factory edge

CIO Business Intelligence

Manufacturers have been using gateways to work around these legacy silos with IoT platforms to collect and consolidate all operational data. The detailed data must be tagged and mapped to specific processes, operational steps, and dashboards; pressure data A maps to process B, temperature data C maps to process D, etc.

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Apple really, really wants you to tag your files

Computerworld Vertical IT

While Apple hasn’t overtly said so, tagging appears to be becoming increasingly important across its platforms, and will likely help you get things done. Apple extends tags support. Apple will extend support for tags to Notes and Reminders on iPhones , Mac and iPads soon. To read this article in full, please click here

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Photos: Tree deep in Asian giant hornet nest, entomologists recover ‘chewed off’ radio tracker

GeekWire

after trapping and tagging a hornet with a tiny radio transmitter. On Friday, the team collected more live hornets, adult specimens including both new queens and workers were still in the nest. A radio tag that was previously attached to a hornet and led to the nest. A hornet inside the nest.

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