A report from the NeuroRights Foundation looks at how neurotech companies are (mostly not) protecting privacy – and what products in multiple industries intend to get access to. The cross-industry report looked at 30 companies, their privacy policies and user agreements for devices that access and can record data from the nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves.
A four-year comparison of global data legislation shows many countries with laws previously pending have now passed laws; others that have newly pending legislation, and just a few countries with no draft protection plan. The Licks Attorney maps are based on information from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
How much harm will it take before a reset on whether protecting kids matters? With this US federal court ruling, key provisions of California’s child online safety law have been blocked by NetChoice, the tech trade group standing firm against regulating the tech industry. And, really, why would we want restrain tech, or protect kids from an industry constantly in the news for profiting from them without consent?
Remember the good old days, when lying was considered unacceptable? The folks at Iron Tribe Fitness, a South Carolina gym, are holding Meta to that forgotten standard in a class action suit alleging that Facebook overcharged advertisers as much as $4 billion by using one type of auction bidding process while claiming to use another. Meta blames the error on a “software glitch” that began in 2013 and continued for at least four years.