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Texas AG Sues Meta Over Collection and Use of Biometric Data

Hunton Privacy

The suit focuses on Meta’s “tag suggestions” feature, which the company has since retired. The feature scanned faces in users’ photos and videos to suggest “tagging” ( i.e. , identify by name) users who appeared in the photos and videos.

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Social Media Platform Fined 100,000 USD by Washington State AG for COPPA Violations

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Under the consent decree , the defendants must pay $100,000, with an additional $400,000 suspended contingent upon compliance with the consent decree. The consent decree also requires the We Heart It platform to pass all existing users through an age gate.

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$10,000,000 civil penalty for disclosing personal data without consent

Data Protection Report

The claims related to the company’s sharing personal data without consumer consent and making it very difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions to this telehealth service. The order also requires that the company destroy personal data for which it had not received consent and to create a document retention and destruction policy.

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Italian Garante Publishes Updated Guidelines on Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

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The Guidelines replace the resolution dated May 8, 2014, which set out simplified arrangements to provide information and obtain consent regarding cookies. Only technical cookies (and anonymized analytics cookies) may be used without user consent, as consent must be obtained in all other cases. Reiteration of Consent.

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Facebook Agrees to Landmark 550 Million Dollar Settlement in BIPA Class Action

Hunton Privacy

Under the proposed settlement, Facebook agrees to establish a $550,000,000 fund to compensate Illinois users who claim Facebook violated BIPA by using facial recognition in its tag recognition feature without user consent.

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Data privacy examples

IBM Big Data Hub

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. The price tag can add up quickly. If a business were to sell user data without consent, each record it sells would count as one violation. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends.

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New Android malicious library Goldoson found in 60 apps +100M downloads

Security Affairs

The third-party library can perform ad fraud by clicking advertisements in the background without the user’s consent. “The tags such as ‘ads_enable’ or ‘collect_enable’ indicates each functionality to work or not while other parameters define conditions and availability.”