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.
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.
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.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.