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Texas AG Sues Meta Over Collection and Use of Biometric Data

Hunton Privacy

On February 14, 2022, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton brought suit against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, over the company’s collection and use of biometric data. The suit focuses on Meta’s “tag suggestions” feature, which the company has since retired.

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Computers and Video Surveillance

Schneier on Security

Maybe they just recorded, and no one looked at the video unless they needed to. In either case, the video was only stored for a few days because storage was expensive. Identification technologies make it easier to automatically figure out who is in the videos. First: video analytics. First: video analytics.

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Facebook is going to shut down Face Recognition system and data it collected

Security Affairs

Facebook announced to shut down its Face Recognition system and is going to delete over 1 billion people’s facial recognition profiles. Facebook announced it will stop using the Face Recognition system on its platform and will delete over 1 billion people’s facial recognition profiles. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Facebook).

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Facebook to End Use of Its Facial Recognition System

Hunton Privacy

On November 2, 2021, Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. The Facebook platform has long used facial recognition to provide recommendations for who to tag in photos and videos, and to alert users when a photo they were in is uploaded by another user.

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Dormant Colors campaign operates over 1M malicious Chrome extensions

Security Affairs

The attack chain relies on malvertising messages that were crafted to trick victims into clicking on the install button as seen in the following video: Upon clicking on the ‘OK’ or ‘Continue’ button, the victims are prompted to install a color-changing extension. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 413 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 413 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

Nearly 20 million Cutout.Pro users’ data breached Cutout.Pro, an AI photo and video editing platform, has suffered a data breach. Subscribe now The post The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Data breached: 21,100,000 records.