Unfortunately, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) which has just settled a suit with Amazon for $5.8 million, Amazon’s Ring doorbell camera was found to be spying on female customers in their bedrooms and bathrooms. This comes just after the company agreed to pay a $25 million settlement from the FTC’s children’s privacy suit.
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The class action brought by a California resident alleges that TikTok’s pixel allows TikTok and parent company ByteDance to collect data that can be used for online advertising. The claim is that since the pixel allows compilation of broad information on web users regardless of whether individuals have accounts with app or not, the company has violated federal anti-hacking laws and California privacy laws.
Texas becomes the tenth US state to pass a privacy bill, but it will go into effect before some others. In fact, Texas has passed three bills – the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (HB 4) to regulate collection of personal data by business entities; the children’s social media bill (HB 18) to protect children from harmful trade practices; and the data broker bill (SB 2105). JD Supra announced this along with an excellent overview of US state legislation to date.
AI-edited content is less concerning than AI-generated content — that’s the takeaway from Meta’s adjustment to its AI labeling on Facebook and other platforms. The “AI info” label will continue to appear on AI-generated content. Where content has only been modified or edited using AI, the label will appear more demurely in the post’s menu.