TikTok to pay $92M to settle data harvesting lawsuits
TikTok will pay $92M to settle more than 20 federal lawsuits. Most of the suits were filed on behalf of minors from ages 6 and up. Data, which included facial recognition information that TikTok harvested, was reported shared with third parties including in China.
In what the Illinois judge called “a major win for consumers in the hotly contested area of digital privacy,” Facebook has to pay for photo-tagging, collecting and storing people’s biometric data in violation of the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Facebook will also have to turn off its face-recognition settings (but only for Illinois residents!). We’ll soon see how other states’ biometric laws evolve.
No Sidewalk data for you, Google & Portland! For the second time in two years, Sidewalk Labs (owned by the same company as Google) failed to get a permission to design a digital “Smart City,” due to concerns about how citizen data it collected would be used. Portland pulled the project due to concerns about lack of transparency, the same reason Toronto cited when they stopped working with Sidewalk Labs on what was intended to also be an experiment in establishing an urban data trust. Read More – Portland Read More – Toronto
Scope3 Media Reporting has raised $25 million in new funding to support its mission to measure media and advertising carbon emissions and suggest optimizations that will reduce them. Brands that use Scope3 to reduce their emissions include Coca-Cola, General Motors and Mastercard. It now plans to address the growing threat of emissions caused by the use of AI.