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.
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.