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The IAPP has published a regional briefing covering developments in artificial intelligence regulation, privacy law, and cybersecurity enforcement across Greater China and Hong Kong.
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Brevard Skin and Cancer Center, a Florida dermatology practice, has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit. The case stems from an incident that affected patients of the clinic, though specific details of the breach and settlement terms are not disclosed in the available excerpt.
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A grandmother spent six months in jail after a facial recognition misidentification led to her wrongful arrest. She has now filed a $10 million lawsuit against the city of Fargo and the detective involved in her case.
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The FTC announced that Amazon will accelerate and expand consumer payments under a $2.5 billion settlement resolving allegations that the company enrolled millions of people in Prime subscriptions without their consent and deliberately made cancellation difficult. The deal includes up to $1.5 billion in consumer redress and a $1 billion civil penalty.
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Authorities have seized the domain of Radaris.com, a people-search data broker, over alleged violations of Daniel's Law, a New Jersey statute that protects the home addresses and personal information of law enforcement officers, judges, and prosecutors from public disclosure.
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A grandmother is suing the city of Fargo after she was wrongly jailed following a police identification made using AI facial recognition technology. The lawsuit targets the city directly over the use of a tool that led to her wrongful detention.
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A grandmother is suing the city of Fargo after spending months in jail following a wrongful arrest tied to AI facial recognition used by local police. The lawsuit centers on the harm caused by a misidentification that led to her extended detention.
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A woman who was wrongfully jailed following a police identification made using AI facial recognition technology has filed a lawsuit against the city. The case adds to a growing record of wrongful arrests tied to facial recognition errors.
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A Consumer Reports investigation found that companies frequently obstruct consumers trying to exercise their personal data rights under state privacy laws. Experts note that fines and warning letters may do little to change behavior at large data companies, which reportedly treat noncompliance as a manageable business cost.
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A New Jersey court ordered the transfer of radaris.com and more than a dozen related domains after the data broker repeatedly failed to comply with a lawsuit alleging it violated a state law protecting the personal information of law enforcement officials.
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A new EFF report finds that police officers across the United States are entering meaningless or flippant justifications — including 'LOL,' 'LMAO,' and 'Sexy' — when logging searches of Flock Safety's automated license plate reader networks. The findings suggest that required-reason fields, meant to create accountability, are being treated as formalities.
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A Tennessee woman has filed a $10 million lawsuit against the city of Fargo after she was wrongfully arrested based on a mistaken facial recognition match. The case adds to a growing record of flawed identifications tied to automated recognition systems used by law enforcement.
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Ukraine's parliament passed stricter criminal penalties for running fraudulent call centers and stealing personal data. The legislation follows a corruption scandal in which prosecutors were accused of accepting bribes to shield scam operations from prosecution.
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FBI Director Kash Patel has argued that the bureau needs direct access to the latest AI models in order to effectively investigate and police AI-driven cybercrime. His comments signal the FBI is pushing to position itself closer to frontier AI systems as criminal use of those tools grows.
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Meta is facing a class action lawsuit alleging that the company used photos uploaded to Instagram to build facial recognition capabilities for its smart glasses. The suit implies that users who posted images had their data used for biometric AI development without meaningful consent.
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A Tennessee woman has filed a lawsuit against the city of Fargo and a detective after she was wrongfully arrested based on a facial recognition misidentification. The case adds to a growing record of people — disproportionately women and people of color — caught in false matches generated by the technology.
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A Tennessee woman has filed a lawsuit against the city of Fargo and a former detective after she was wrongfully arrested based on a facial recognition misidentification. The case adds to a growing record of facial recognition errors leading to false arrests.
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A class action lawsuit alleges that Meta is using photos uploaded by Instagram users to train a facial recognition system intended for its Ray-Ban smart glasses. The suit claims this use of personal images was not what users agreed to when they posted on the platform.
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California's privacy regulator has issued fines against data brokers, while Colorado is moving forward with proposed rules to govern artificial intelligence. Both actions reflect continued momentum at the state level on consumer data and automated decision-making.
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Meta is facing a lawsuit connected to facial recognition capabilities in its smart glasses. The legal action suggests the glasses were used in ways that implicate biometric privacy rights.
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An investigation found that police officers are routinely entering meaningless or joke entries — like 'idk' or 'LMAO' — into the required justification fields when querying automated license plate reader networks that can pull data from tens of thousands of cameras at once. The findings suggest that audit logging requirements, meant to provide accountability for mass surveillance tools, are being ignored in practice.
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Meta is facing a class action lawsuit related to planned facial recognition capabilities in its smart glasses. The suit appears to target the company before such features are fully deployed, challenging the privacy implications of the technology.
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Meta is facing a lawsuit over allegations that photos uploaded to Facebook and Instagram were used to train its artificial intelligence systems and facial recognition technology without users' knowledge or consent.
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A social media trend using distorted or AI-generated images of the Cat in the Hat character has spread across the US, with some posts used to make threats against schools and students. Several teenagers have been arrested or charged in connection with the posts, prompting warnings from schools and law enforcement.
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