In Brief: Meta hit with Texas lawsuit over photo tagging
The suit claims Meta’s Facebook violated Texas’ Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier (CUBI) Act.
The suit claims Meta’s Facebook violated Texas’ Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier (CUBI) Act.
WW International (formerly Weight Watchers) and its subsidiary, Kurbo will pay a $1.5 million settlement after being charged by the US Federal Trade Commission with violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). They also have to delete information they collected, and change the models and algorithms that collected it.
Now in beta, the expectation is to roll out the new feature by late 2022.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.