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In Brief: In a sign of the reduced power of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), a judge threw out a lawsuit which sought $75,000+ in damages, determining the amount would only be about $15,000

This is due to a business-friendly bill the governor signed recently, which stated that when biometric data has been improperly obtained, a business can only been charged for one violation, even if the data was obtained multiple times.

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Children’s Privacy: Australia opts in favor of more user control, but not to ban social for ages under 16

November 19, 2024

Despite bipartisan support for banning users under age 16 from social media, an Australian parliamentary committee recommended giving users control to alter, reset, or turn off algorithms, but didn’t go so far as the age ban. Other recommendations included introducing a duty of care for platforms, providing more digital literacy education, and including young people in the process of helping to design any regulations that will impact them.

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Google Will Not Show Political Ads in EU Next Year

November 18, 2024

While the U.S. Federal Election Commission is famously toothless in its attempts to enforce standards for political advertising, agencies elsewhere have considerable bite. In response to disclosure rules aimed at avoiding election interference and deception, Google has announced it will stop serving political ads in the European Union starting next year. It had already dropped political ads in Canada, France, and Brazil.

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