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LinkedIn sued in US for sharing private messages

A suit seeking $1,000/user payout has been filed in the US against LinkedIn Premium claiming the platform shared private messages of users with other companies after automatically opting them in to a program that provided data for training AI. The filing also claimed the company knew it was in violation of what users agreed to and that this was part of a patterns of concealing its actions.

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FTC issues 5-year ban to keep GM from selling data

January 28, 2025

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settles with General Motors putting a 5-year moratorium on the company to keep it from selling driver location data it collected. This follows a discovery that GM had been collecting and selling the data of millions of consumers without their intended consent. This was because the sign-up process for GM’s OnStar service was confusing to users who were unclear what they were agreeing to.

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IT’S THE LAW (01/28/2025)

January 28, 2025

Somalia has new national ID cards that are creating controversy because of speculation that they have been specially timed to coincide with the elections. However, the country’s National Identification and Regulatory Authority (NIRA) denied that saying citizens will continue using the ID cards on an ongoing basis after the elections, which isn’t really an explanation of how instituting them now related isn’t election-related.

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