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Amazon's Ring has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that its devices used facial recognition technology in ways that violated users' privacy rights. The suit appears to center on the collection or processing of biometric data without adequate notice or consent.
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A consolidated class action filed by employees against medical technology company Stryker, stemming from a cyberattack in March 2026 attributed to the Hamdala threat group, has been voluntarily dismissed. The plaintiffs chose to drop the case rather than having it decided by a court.
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Researchers found that Stelios Kouloglou, a former European Parliament member who sat on the body's committee investigating commercial spyware abuses, was infected with Pegasus spyware twice while he was serving in that role.
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A man is suing the Phoenix Police Department and the Maricopa County Attorney's Office after allegedly being wrongfully arrested for a cold case murder based on a facial recognition match. The lawsuit claims the identification was faulty and led to a wrongful deprivation of his liberty.
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Roku has reached a settlement in a Florida lawsuit alleging the company improperly handled children's personal data. The case was brought as a class action, though specific terms of the settlement have not been detailed in available reporting.
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Privacy activist Max Schrems has notified European officials of his intent to challenge the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, the agreement that legally underpins personal data transfers from the European Union to U.S. companies.
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X Corp. has petitioned the FTC to set aside or modify a 2022 consent decree that requires regular compliance reporting and stemmed from the company using account-security data — phone numbers and email addresses — for targeted advertising, resulting in a $150 million fine. The EFF and allied groups have filed comments urging the FTC to reject the petition.
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The FTC reached a $35 million settlement with the companies behind the Hopper travel app over allegations that the platform charged users unauthorized fees and misled them about total prices and the value of services like Price Freeze and VIP Support. The settlement also bars Hopper from making deceptive claims about fees going forward.
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An investigation by consumer group Which? found that Tripadvisor's AI-generated review summaries consistently downplayed serious guest complaints, including describing a hotel facing a mass food poisoning lawsuit as 'spotless' and framing a resort with sexual harassment allegations against staff as having 'friendly' service.
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A US House committee has launched an investigation into drug trials conducted in China by pharmaceutical giants Merck and AbbVie. The probe appears to center on the companies' clinical research activities in China and the oversight surrounding them.
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Amazon will pay $2.25 million to settle FTC charges that it knowingly violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by repeatedly denying identity theft victims access to records of fraudulent transactions made using their personal data. The settlement resolves allegations that Amazon's refusals were not accidental but deliberate.
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Environmental advocate Erin Brockovich has turned her attention to AI data centers, citing community concerns about their local environmental impact — particularly water and resource consumption. She frames the campaign as a David-versus-Goliath struggle against a well-funded global industry.
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A policy advocate is urging lawmakers at all levels of government to move quickly to regulate armed drones and robots used by domestic law enforcement, arguing that technology companies are outpacing any existing legal framework for when and how lethal or harmful force can be deployed remotely.
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The International Association of Privacy Professionals has published the first installment of a multi-part series examining the current landscape of consumer privacy rights enforcement, surveying how regulators are pursuing compliance and penalizing violations across jurisdictions.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, TEDIC, and CEJIL have filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights against Paraguay, alleging the government unlawfully withheld public information about its facial recognition surveillance system. The case centers on cameras installed by the Ministry of the Interior and National Police in 2019 and the state's refusal to provide transparency about how the technology is used.
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Former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams has filed a federal lawsuit in California alleging the company used an arbitration ruling to unlawfully suppress her memoir and subjected her to coercive surveillance, constituting a First Amendment violation.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has found that law enforcement agencies using Flock Safety's automated license plate reader systems are running scans against federal hotlists that include targets designated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Local police departments may be participating in immigration enforcement through this system without the public being aware.
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A WIRED investigation exposes how a UK regional police force developed an expansive predictive analytics system, finding that some of the tool's outputs proved unreliable — raising questions about the integrity of AI-driven law enforcement decisions.
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EU data protection authorities are continuing to enforce GDPR requirements around the designation of local representatives for non-EU companies doing business in Europe. The trend signals that regulators are treating this structural compliance obligation as a live enforcement priority, not a paper formality.
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The European Data Protection Board has introduced a dedicated online form allowing stakeholders to flag discrepancies in how GDPR is interpreted or enforced across EU member states, including gaps between national supervisory authorities and EDPB positions. The initiative stems from commitments made in the EDPB's Helsinki Statement on clarity and engagement.
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A lawsuit alleges that i-Ready, a widely used educational assessment platform, collected data from San Diego students and shared it with third parties without proper authorization. The case targets the data practices of an ed-tech tool used in classrooms across the district.
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The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has fined a Manchester-based firm £300,000 for sending more than 5.5 million unsolicited text messages to people in debt. The messages were sent without lawful basis, violating rules that exist specifically to protect people from this kind of mass, uninvited contact.
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A new federal lawsuit references investigative reporting by WESH 2 in connection with a wrongful arrest allegedly caused by facial recognition technology, suggesting the incident has escalated from a news story into formal legal action.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip local law enforcement agencies with a facial recognition application to support immigration enforcement operations, according to Biometric Update. The initiative would extend biometric identification capabilities beyond federal agencies to local police departments.
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