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The $1.4 billion privacy settlement is the largest to date by a US state, according to Texas’ attorney general, resulting from a lawsuit that alleged Meta violated Texas privacy law by illegally collecting facial images of millions of users by tagging faces on its site. Texas, Illinois and Washington have laws regulating collection of facial, voice and other biometric data.

Personal details of UK voters were vulnerable to cyber-hackers for more than a year, beginning in August 2021, due to insufficient protections by the Electoral Commission, which has been formally reprimanded by the UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO). Computers holding the voter data had software that had not been updated and passwords had not been changed.

Take our word for it, TikTok is bad, seems to be the US Department of Justice (DOJ)’s approach to defending the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The new law is designed to control threats from China with a special focus on ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company. The DOJ laid out arguments in court papers, but large portions are blacked out, presumably for security reasons. This, along with the specificity of the law against a single company, prompted opposition from the company and civil liberties groups.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing TikTok, charging it let kids under age 13 onto its platform without obtaining parental consent. The suit alleges the company violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by letting young children set up accounts, collecting their personal information, and not honoring parental requests for deletion.

So says a report from non-profit Consumer Watchdog, which also charges that advertisers are continuing to pay for and get access to consumer data even though companies claim they are not selling or sharing it. Do you believe in magic?

The state has published guidance information for businesses and consumers on how to comply and have privacy protected. These are: the Website Privacy Controls: A Guide for Business and A Consumer Guide to Web Tracking.