… Meta has paid roughly $2 billion to settle biometric privacy lawsuits in Illinois and Texas, which accused the company of capturing users' faceprints without consent for the same photo-tagging system it later shuttered. …
… In a statement, Meta spokesperson Chris Sgro says, “These allegations misrepresent the reality of our work and we will fight them.” Speaking with WIRED, Ben Winters, CFA’s director of AI and data privacy, says others can find more dubious ads just by searching Meta’s ad library using key words like… …
… Now I guess the privacy brand isn't as valuable, so they just reverse it and blame the users.”
… Perloff argues that the government is using the fact that big tech companies are based in the US to request information it would not otherwise be able to get. “It’s using that geographic fact to get information that otherwise would be totally outside of its jurisdiction,” he says. “I mean, we’re ta… …
… Like their forerunner, the doomed Google Glass, the Meta Ray-Ban and Oakley glasses, which range in price from $299 to $499, are up against a privacy-minded backlash. …
… WIRED is using a pseudonym in this article out of respect for her privacy. …
… In small text at the bottom of the page, another disclaimer warned that once she was redirected to MyMove, she would be subject to MyMove’s privacy policies and terms and conditions, not USPS’s. …
… As the Mozilla Foundation reported after an in-depth investigation into the industry, many mental health apps are lax on privacy. Most failed privacy audits, failing to secure or even outright profiting from personal mental health data. …
… Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. …
… Under the proposed privacy reforms, the FBI would be barred from running warrantless searches through American data simply to look for spies. …