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.

Reveal the identities of alleged pirates, court tells ISP

It’s not the first ISP to be held accountable for alleged piracy: Cox is looking at a $1b damage order.

Google fights spammy extensions with new Chrome Web Store policy

The policies are specifically meant to fight spam, but they outlaw tactics taken by malicious extensions as well, including fake reviews.

Coronavirus tracking tool from Apple and Google embraced by Germany

Germany’s ditched a homegrown alternative that featured a centralized database of location data, raising privacy concerns.

309 million Facebook users’ phone numbers (and more) found online

First, 267m records were exposed & sold for 0.0002 cents each on the Dark Web. It was taken down but got reposted with yet more records.