In Brief: NYC Council requires public notice of facial recognition use
Business fines to be imposed for collecting or selling.
Business fines to be imposed for collecting or selling.
Google, Amazon get $163M fine and 3 month ultimatums from CNIL France’s Data Authority, CNIL doubled its highest previous penalty and charged Google $121M, saying it does not sufficiently inform French Google users why and how cookies are used. Amazon similarly was given a $42.5M fine for putting cookies on users’ computers without consent. Both companies disagree.
Always-on listening & full-body health critique.
Misleading election-related ads are “running rampant” on Meta-owned Facebook, but Google-owned YouTube is also making money from misinformation. Research by Media Matters, independently confirmed by the New York Times, found 30 YouTube channels that between them had posted almost 300 videos containing misinformation which had earned some 47 million views. YouTube is monetizing them with ads and sharing revenue with the creators. YouTube says election-denial falsehoods don’t violate its guidelines.