US has recently approved a $650 million class action privacy violation lawsuit against
Facebook and other similar family apps of social networking for allegedly using its facial recognition feature without the permission of its users.
There were 1.6 Million members who had their biometric data and facial features stored in Facebook’s database without the consent of these members. Judge Donato presided over the proceedings and finalised a $5000 compensation to the 3 main plaintiffs in the case and $345 for all the remaining members.
Following this class-action lawsuit, Facebook announced a updated policy of suggested tagging, however, its AI would be programmed to not automatically tag people in posts and also not issue their biometric data to public platforms.
Facebook sued by a Muslim Civil Rights group for making "false and deceptive" claims about removing hate speech
Business
Apr 13, 2021
Shreyas Nair
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A civil rights group in the United States has sued Facebook, alleging that CEO Mark Zuckerberg made "false and misleading" claims when he said that the company had deleted hate speech. The group has filed a lawsuit against Facebook and its executives, alleging that CEO Mark Zuckerberg made "false and misleading" claims to Congress as he said that the social media giant removed hate speech and any content that breaches its guidelines.According to the case which was filed in Washington, D.C....
Delhi High Court Seeks Status Report in Plea Seeking Constitution of SIT to Investigate Alleged Digital Fraud And Click Fraud Scam By Facebook
Judiciary
Apr 05, 2021
Prachi Jain
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Editor: Ekta Joshi
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The Delhi High Court recently approached Delhi Police Cyber Cell's status report in a plea pertaining to alleged click fraud and other digital criminal fraud and other digital criminal frauds hatched by Facebook thereby seeking directions on Union of India, Delhi Police and Cyber Crime Cell to jointly constitute a Special Investigation Unit (SIT) for investigating into the complaint made by the petitioner company.Justice Anu Malhotra vide order dated Wednesday March, 24th, 2021 asked the Cyber...
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