Alex Hern, The Guardian; Facebook pays $550m settlement for breaking Illinois data protection law
"Facebook has settled a lawsuit over facial recognition technology,
agreeing to pay $550m (£419m) over accusations it had broken an Illinois state law regulating the use of biometric details...
It is one of the largest payouts for a privacy breach in US history, a
marker of the strength of Illinois’s nation-leading privacy laws. The
New York Times, which first reported the settlement,
noted that the sum “dwarfed” the $380m penalty the credit bureau
Equifax agreed to pay over a much larger customer data breach in 2017."
Ethically-tangled aspects of 21st century societies and cultures. In the vein of Charles Darwin’s 1859 “entangled bank” metaphor—a complex and evolving digital ecosystem of difference and dependence, where humans, technologies, ethics, law, policy, data, and information converge and diverge. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Thursday, January 30, 2020
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