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- Meta Reaches $1.4 Billion Settlement With Texas Over Privacy Violations [nytimes.com]
Another day, another Meta violation. Cecilia Kang reports that "Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, agreed to a record $1.4 billion settlement with Texas... over allegations that it had illegally collected facial recognition information of users in violation of state law."
- Olympics' AI Security Stokes Backlash Over Mass Surveillance [news.bloomberglaw.com]
The Paris Summer Olympics began last week — but the TV cameras aren't the only ones rolling. A controversial new AI event-security technology is using machine learning to analyze footage from video cameras around the city to detect potential threats among the crowds. "While French lawmakers call the tool a security measure aimed at shielding the multi-week event from violence," some privacy experts fear that "increased use of AI-enhanced video security at such high-profile events... could create a larger appetite for mass surveillance outside the venues' walls."
- Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border [reason.com]
"For years, courts have ruled that the government has the right to conduct routine, warrantless searches for contraband at the border. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has taken advantage of that loophole in the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures to force travelers to hand over data from their phones and laptops," says Matthew Petti. "But... Judge Nina Morrison in the Eastern District of New York ruled that cellphone searches are a 'nonroutine' search, more akin to a strip search than scanning a suitcase or passing a traveler through a metal detector."
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