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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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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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Judge denies California’s attempt to intervene in Activision Blizzard settlement

The Verge

The denial prevents the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing from joining the EEOC’s lawsuit against Activision Blizzard in order to oppose the consent decree that accompanies the creation of an $18 million settlement fund.

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Tracking the Trackers: For Better or Worse

SecureWorld News

The legality of tracking someone or something without their consent began to splinter in the U.S. with many states allowing some degree of electronic tracking without consent. These radios are being tracked and tagged by marketers, telecom companies and individuals in an effort to resell that data to parties willing to pay.

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

The Verge

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. The case became a class action lawsuit in 2018.

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ChatGPT enhances paid user experience with “Browse” for source discovery

Dataconomy

This update seems to address the criticism faced by OpenAI for using web content to train its model without explicit consent from the creators. We do not consent to you guys strip-mining everything we've ever written on the internet to train your unaligned, for-profit AI systems that are explicitly intended to replace human creators.

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The search is over: smart trackers from Apple, Samsung, and Tile compared

The Verge

Well, in addition to some other historic milestones, somewhere in the top 100 hits of the year will be the introduction of smart tracker tags from two major mobile device manufacturers: Samsung and Apple. Tracking tags have been around for a while now, and Tile has been the best-known brand in the space.

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