Spain’s DPA fines Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona €2,520,000 ($2,991,000) for unlawful use of a facial recognition system. The chain was using a system to detect people who had criminal convictions or restraining orders.
France’s CNIL fined agribusiness Montsanto €400,000 for GDPR violation for not informing people it was recording their information in a lobbying file.
A new Pew survey has found the pandemic has increased patient willingness to have their data shared among providers, as long as privacy is protected. This included use of biometrics or unique identifiers.
Under pressure from youth advocacy groups and 40+ states attorneys general, Facebook announced a series of changes, including limits on ad targeting minors on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram. Facebook does however plan to continue with plans for Instagram for tweens, despite AGs’ requests not to do so. Plans include more transparency and improving age identification.
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.