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NetChoice Sues Tennessee Over Social Media Restrictions

The Tennessee state government couldn’t address gun violence, but did find time to limit adolescents’ access to social media.  Their new law, passed last May, prohibits social media companies from allowing under-18 users to create accounts without parental consent and requires them to verify all users’ ages. Tech industry group NetChoice has sued to block the law in federal court, largely on First Amendment grounds.

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Meta Smart Glasses Can ID Strangers in Seconds

October 8, 2024

Two Harvard students have demonstrated the possibility of linking Meta smart glasses with facial recognition technology making it possible to grab personal information about someone just by looking at them. They used a face search engine called Pimeyes and linked an LLM to combine data from a range of people search databases. The Meta Ray Bans 2 used in the experiment look like ordinary eyeglasses: the students described their results as creepy.

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EU restricts Meta on ad targeting + why Meta/Ray-Bans are scary

October 8, 2024

Double Meta trouble. First, an EU court backed Max Schrems’ complaint accusing it of violating privacy regarding sexual orientation, so now the company must restrict data it uses for targeted ads in the EU. Secondly, two Harvard students revealed Meta’s Ray Ban smart glasses can, in combination with facial image search technology, be used to identify people on sight, potentially for doxing or for scamming.

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