Meta’s new “smart glasses” raise similar issues to Google glass, with questions on whether privacy law is equipped to deal with the higher level of private surveillance they allow.
The Guardian and +972 report that Israel’s contracts with Amazon and Google provide for “unorthodox ‘controls’” in the deal. It creates a “winking mechanism” that requires the companies to secretly divulge the identity of foreign countries whose law enforcement has asked for Israeli data through coded payments. The contract also limits the ability for the companies to revoke Israel’s access to the cloud platforms even if they find Israel’s use of the technology violates their terms of service or non-Israeli law.
Reddit sued Perplexity for data scraping of its website. This follows a lawsuit filed against Anthropic earlier this year.
DHS has published a final rule providing for photographing all non-citizens at all border entries.
ICE and CPB have been using facial recognition technology in their enforcement raids.
Character AI has modified their terms of service to bar minors from using its chatbots.
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(Compiled by Tobit Glenhaber)