July 31, 2024 at 01:09AM Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has reached a $1.4 billion settlement with the state of Texas over allegations of unlawfully collecting biometric data from millions of users. The lawsuit accused Meta of violating Texas’ biometric privacy law by using facial recognition software without users’ informed consent. … Read more
May 29, 2024 at 02:31PM Political consultant Steven Kramer has been indicted on charges of felony voter suppression and misdemeanor impersonation of a candidate for orchestrating a deepfake robocall impersonating US President Joe Biden. He paid $150 for the deepfake and was fined $6 million by the FCC. Kramer admitted his goal was to reduce … Read more
January 9, 2024 at 03:37PM The U.S. FTC banned data broker Outlogic, formerly X-Mode Social, from selling Americans’ sensitive location data. The move responds to data brokers exposing individuals’ location data revealing sensitive information. Outlogic lacked protocols to remove sensitive locations and sometimes failed to respect individuals’ opt-out preferences. The ban follows an August 2022 … Read more