An Illinois judge refused to dismiss the biometric data privacy suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other advocacy groups against Clearview AI. The groups, citing Illinois’ BIPA biometrics law, want Clearview to delete all face biometrics collected from Illinois residents without consent.
The UK government is overhauling its privacy rules and is weighing changes, including ending cookie popups and online consent requests. If so, it will have to balance loosening its rules in comparison with those of the EU while considering implications for adequacy for compliance to allow data transfers under GDPR.
Rwanda has adopted a new privacy law. It defines grounds for collecting and processing personal data, protects the right of the data subject, and specifies punishment for failure to comply.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.