Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Tuesday signed into law a privacy bill giving consumers the right to opt out of the use of non-sensitive data for targeted advertising. ...

TikTok agreed to pay $92 million to settle claims that it violated a wide range of data-protection laws, including a federal video privacy law and an Illinois law regarding biometr ...

A federal judge has granted final approval to a class-action settlement requiring Facebook to pay $650 million for allegedly violating an Illinois biometric privacy law by compiling a database ...

Oklahoma lawmakers have advanced a broad privacy bill that would require companies to obtain consumers' explicit consent before using their data for a variety of purposes, including ad targeting. ...

Virginia is poised to pass a privacy law that's partially modeled on the one in California, though considered weaker by some privacy advocates. ...

The People's Privacy Act, introduced by Washington state Rep. Shelley Kloba and backed by the ACLU, is being touted as a more stringent bill than the measure introduced last mon ...

Lawmakers in Washington state have advanced a privacy bill that would require companies to obtain people's opt-in consent before drawing on "sensitive" data for ad targeting. ...

Illinois consumers can proceed with a lawsuit alleging that Apple's Photos app violates an Illinois biometric privacy law ...

"The bill lacks adequate corporate obligations to prevent the invasive tracking of internet users and lacks provisions that give users meaningful control over their personal data and how that da ...

Amazon and Microsoft are asking federal judges in Washington to dismiss lawsuits accusing the companies of violating an Illinois biometric privacy law by acquiring a database of faceprints. ...

Come January, private companies in Portland, Oregon will no longer be allowed to use facial-recognition technology in stores, parks, and other places of public accommodation, under an ordinance passed unanimous ...

"The $650 million that will be awarded to the Illinois class is an impressive result both as an absolute number and relative to other class action settlements in privacy cases ...

Facial recognition company Clearview AI is telling a federal judge that an injunction requiring the business to stop collecting and selling biometric data about Illinois residents would violate free spee ...

Brainworks today will launch an AI-powered application accessible from desktop and mobile devices that allows people to manage their personal health data and track COVID-19 specific symptoms. The application, Med ...

The judge overseeing a privacy lawsuit against Facebook over its alleged use of facial recognition technology signaled Thursday he's inclined to approve a settlement. ...

Google, Amazon, Microsoft and FaceFirst were sued this week for allegedly violating an Illinois biometric privacy law by acquiring a database of faceprints. The complaints allege that tech companies obtain ...

Four federal lawmakers have unveiled a bill that would prohibit federal law enforcement agencies and other government entities from using technology that identifies people based on biometrics -- including faceprint ...

Vimeo is appealing a trial judge's refusal to compel arbitration of claims it violated an Illinois law restricting the use of facial-recognition technology. ...

Google plans to fight a potential class-action lawsuit over faceprints by arguing that the Illinois biometric privacy law doesn't apply to data derived from photos -- even though other judg ...

The company's arbitration agreement excludes claims relating to invasion of privacy, a federal judge found. ...

Lawyers for Illinois residents are asking a federal judge to grant preliminary approval to Facebook's $550 million settlement of a biometric privacy lawsuit. ...

Controversial company Clearview AI says it no longer uses facial-recognition technology on photos that appear to be associated with Illinois, and is prohibiting clients from searching photos associated with t ...

Two minors in Illinois have sued social media platform TikTok and its parent company ByteDance, for allegedly violating that state's privacy law by collecting users' faceprints. ...

Siding against Amazon, a federal judge has rejected the company's request to order arbitration of a privacy dispute centered on Alexa's alleged collection of children's voiceprints. ...

An Illinois resident who sued Clearview AI in January is now asking a federal judge to issue a pre-trial order requiring the facial recognition company to destroy data about sta ...

A class-action complaint has been brought against Google for allegedly violating privacy laws by collecting voiceprints, faceprints, and other personal information from children. ...

Facial recognition company Clearview AI recently notified its clients that the company's entire customer list had been stolen. ...

One week after Facebook agreed to pay $550 million for allegedly violating an Illinois biometric privacy law, Google was hit with a new lawsuit accusing it of running afoul ...

Clearview violates a state law that gives people the right to control the commercial use of their names and images, a Virginia resident alleges in a complaint filed Monday. ...

By the thousands, folks are uploading their most provocative pictures to dating apps -- but somehow don't expect them to turn up elsewhere on the internet. ...