Maps, weather, searches et al. suck up location data in the background, even if Tracking is turned off. Arizona says it’s consumer fraud.
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Pablo Escobar’s brother sues Apple for $2.6b over FaceTime flaw
Roberto Escobar says a FaceTime eavesdropping bug led to his address being leaked, assassination threats, and being forced into hiding.
Clearview AI won’t sell vast faceprint collection to private companies
… nor to anybody, even law enforcement, in the place where privacy-oblivious biometrics companies are forced to their knees: Illinois.
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.
Uber to file federal suit against Los Angeles over users’ real-time location data
Real-time, in-trip geolocation data isn’t good for traffic/bike lane planning, a draft of the suit says. What it’s good for is surveillance.
Homeland Security sued over secretive use of face recognition
As of June 2019, CBP had processed more than 20 million travelers using facial recognition, civil rights group ACLU says.
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 sues data analytics firm OneAudience over malicious SDK
Facebook says OneAudience paid developers to install its social-media-profile-looting SDK into their apps to get marketing data for clients.
Google denies illegally slurping data off free student Chromebooks
Nonsense! says Google in response to a lawsuit filed by New Mexico’s AG, which accuses Google of violating COPPA’s child privacy laws.
Google forced to reveal anonymous reviewer’s details
A court has forced Google to reveal the details of an anonymous poster who published an unpalatable review of a dentist.