… nor to anybody, even law enforcement, in the place where privacy-oblivious biometrics companies are forced to their knees: Illinois.
Tag Archives: class action
Two schoolkids sue Google for collecting biometrics
The suit is about biometrics and children’s privacy in Google’s education apps, which are suddenly, wildly popular now due to COVID-19.
Zynga faces class action suit over massive Words With Friends hack
It’s charging subpar password security and lousy user notification: Zynga has yet to notify users to warn them of the breach, the suit says.
Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints
It’s my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we’re just doing what Google Search does.
Facial recognition firm sued for scraping 3 billion faceprints
A potential class action says Clearview AI is breaking biometrics privacy law by ransacking social media so police can match photos with IDs.
GitHub ‘encourages’ hacking, says lawsuit following Capital One breach
The class action charges Capital One and GitHub, charging it with being “friendly” (at least) toward hacking and for the hackers’ posts.
LinkedIn settles class action suit over 2012 unsalted password leak
LinkedIn is privately settling the 2012 unsalted password leak. Were you one of the 800,000 affected users? Here’s what you need to know. 