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Google kills off Google Glass for a second time

TechSpot

The original Google Glass' $1,500 price tag and concerns over privacy implications meant it never caught on with customers after first arriving in 2013. But Google gave it a new lease of life as an enterprise product by 2017, releasing a second-generation model named Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 a couple of years later.

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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. This decision represents a major step for the movement against facial recognition , which experts and activists have warned is plagued with bias and privacy problems. Facebook originally launched this tool in 2010 to make its photo-tagging feature more popular.

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Privacy Device Designed to Defend Against Illegal Wireless Tracking

SecureWorld News

As the world becomes increasingly digitized, our personal privacy and even physical safety are under threat from a variety of sources. The company's latest product, BlueSleuth-Lite, is a game-changer in the world of personal security and privacy. It is affordable and designed for anyone who values their privacy and security.

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Tracking the Trackers: For Better or Worse

SecureWorld News

Ever since the first GPS (Global Positioning Satellites) systems went live back in the early nineties, privacy experts have warned us about our diminishing rights. And while we have gained both safety and security as a result of this ability to globally track people and things, we seemed to have lost our true sense of privacy.

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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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Judge approves $650 million Facebook privacy settlement over facial recognition feature

The Verge

A federal judge on Friday gave final approval to a $650 million Facebook class action privacy settlement and ordered the 1.6 Chicago attorney Jay Edelson sued Facebook in Cook County Circuit Court back in 2015, alleging that the platform’s use of facial recognition tagging was not allowed under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.

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Facebook is shutting down its Face Recognition tagging program

The Verge

Meta (formerly known as Facebook) is discontinuing Facebook’s Face Recognition feature following a lengthy privacy battle. As part of it, the company will stop using facial recognition algorithms to tag people in photographs and videos, and it will delete the facial recognition templates that it uses for identification.