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Effective immediately, OneTrust has incorporated DocuVision’s data redaction capabilities into its own. The combined technology, OneTrust Data Redaction, will enable companies to find, redact and protect sensitive data in documents and emails.

Massachusetts’ new law balances police needs to identify unknown persons with minimizing errors inherent in facial recognition technology.  The law allows officers access to information, but only after getting a judge’s permission and having the search run via the state police, FBI, or motor vehicle department. The hope is this will produce more accurate results than allowing officers to search for photo matches via facial recognition apps they select on their own.

Inspectors, surveyors and others who take photos with mobile devices to do their work now have a new tool that can ensure they don’t capture and keep facial images and other objects of personally identifiable information. Fulcrum’s no-code mobile app platform can delete or obscure those objects in photos using AI, rather than requiring manual de-identification.

In what the Illinois judge called “a major win for consumers in the hotly contested area of digital privacy,” Facebook has to pay for photo-tagging, collecting and storing people’s biometric data in violation of the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Facebook will also have to turn off its face-recognition settings (but only for Illinois residents!). We’ll soon see how other states’ biometric laws evolve.

TikTok to pay $92M to settle data harvesting lawsuits  TikTok will pay $92M to settle more than 20 federal lawsuits. Most of the suits were filed on behalf of minors from ages 6 and up. Data, which included facial recognition information that TikTok harvested, was reported shared with third parties including in China.

No Sidewalk data for you, Google & Portland!  For the second time in two years, Sidewalk Labs (owned by the same company as Google) failed to get a permission to design a digital “Smart City,” due to concerns about how citizen data it collected would be used. Portland pulled the project due to concerns about lack of transparency, the same reason Toronto cited when they stopped working with Sidewalk Labs on what was intended to also be an experiment in establishing an urban data trust. Read More – Portland Read More – Toronto

The feature is aimed at preventing blocking ad tech tracking. This tool is available to people who use Firefox’s “strict” mode.

Want to know how marketers at other companies are handling privacy challenges? Privacy Co-op has been green-lighted for a 9-episode season slated to start production in April, and the guest line-up is being scheduled now. If you’re a CDO/CMO or other marketing practitioner and have a good story to tell, contact socialmedia@privacyco-op.com with the subject ‘Private, I’ to propose your idea for the show.