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The US state of Illinois has reduced penalties for breaches of its tough Biometric Information Privacy Act. The first version of BIPA, which came into force in 2008, prohibited orgs doing business in Illinois from acquiring, using, storing, and sharing people's biometric data - think retina scans, face scans, fingerprints, and voiceprints - by any means without proper disclosure and consent.
The U.S. Department of Justice, along with the Federal Trade Commission, filed a lawsuit against popular video-sharing platform TikTok for "Flagrantly violating" children's privacy laws in the country. The agencies claimed the company knowingly permitted children to create TikTok accounts and to view and share short-form videos and messages with adults and others on the service.
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against social media platform TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, alleging widespread violations of children's privacy laws. [...]
Healthcare organizations continue to put their business and patients at risk of exposing their most sensitive data, according to Metomic. While publicly shared files that contain highly sensitive data pose the biggest risk for healthcare organizations and underscore the need for data security and DLP tools, many of the access permissions for private files are never updated or removed.
Big Red agrees not to capture personal details after two-year class action Oracle has agreed to cough up $115 million to settle a two-year class action lawsuit that alleged misuse of user data.…
The complaint follows a similar protest in the European Union under the General Data Protection Regulation, which resulted in the social media biz agreeing to pause plans to train AI models on EU users' Facebook and Instagram users' posts. Although UK data protection law currently mirrors that in the EU, its decision to leave the economic and political bloc came into effect at the end of 2020.
Garg's former roommate, identified as "Victim 1" in court documents, received thousands of threatening emails, phone calls, texts, and social media messages in which Garg threatened to murder, torture, and rape her. Garg then targeted that victim's uncle - the attorney who represented her in obtaining the protection order - plus her boyfriend, a Seattle police detective who investigated the threats, and the deputy prosecuting attorney working on Garg's stalking case.
Brazil's data protection authority, Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD), has temporarily banned Meta from processing users' personal data to train the company's artificial intelligence...
Proton has launched 'Docs in Proton Drive,' a free and open-source end-to-end encrypted web-based document editing and collaboration tool. Proton is a Swiss company renowned for its privacy-focused services, including Proton VPN, Proton Mail, Proton Pass, Proton Drive, and now also Proton Docs.
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