The suit, which alleged Instagram used a facial recognition feature that violated the law by capturing facial scans without consent, is open to users active on Instagram from August 10, 2015 to the present.
The ruling results from a case in which a male Facebook user wanted to remain anonymous after making secret recordings of women and then posting defamatory statements about them. A claimant asked Meta to delete the posts and identify the man, but Meta refused claiming his free speech rights. However, the Court ruled the claimant deserved an opportunity to challenge the man’s allegedly defamatory statements.
Online event platform Hopin, once among the hottest of Covid-fueled tech ventures, has sold its core event and session products to RingCentral. Price was not disclosed but is unlikely to have equaled the $1 billion invested in Hopin.
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.