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Niantic, developer of Pokémon Go the uber popular game that since 2016 has sent droves of players outside (gasp!) to catch virtual Pokémon, just announced it plans to use that valuable data. The company spent the last 5 years building a virtual positioning system (VPS) to enable creation of 3D maps utilizing images users collected – currently 10 million images and growing exponentially with ~1 million new scans a week. Late for privacy now, but advice from in-house is ‘don’t take images in private places – or of loved ones,’... Read More >

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) imposed a Rs 213.14 crore (US$26 million) on Meta, whose data practices were deemed unfair in a broadly defined ruling against WhatsApp that incorporated competition. The regulator claimed possible misuse of user data relating to over-the-top (OTT) messaging and online display advertising and had concern about unfair terms under its competition law, the Competition Act. Meta disagrees and plans to appeal.

BIPA in freefall? The vaunted Illinois Biometric Privacy Act (BIPA) hit another judicial obstacle this week as a judge there ruled the amendment weakening its protection and that was signed this summer by the governor, can be used retroactively.

Australia’s government announced it intends to pass legislation by the end of the year banning youth under age 16 from using social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X. This would set a new bar worldwide, as it imposes strict age-verification requirements and disallows exemptions for parental consent and pre-existing accounts. Fines would be as high as $32 million for companies that fail to comply.

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