Privacy and Surveillance
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An internal watchdog report has found that U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials broke agency policies by improperly tracking U.S. citizens with ties to migrant caravans, subjecting them to unnecessary screenings, and attempting to have them barred from entering Mexico…. Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Technology industry behemoths including Amazon, Google and Microsoft are engaged in an “arms race” to develop facial recognition products that has involved stepping on the privacy rights of Illinois residents, according to a handful of lawsuits in California and Washington federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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An Illinois federal judge has ruled that a White Castle manager can go ahead with the bulk of her suit accusing the fast-food chain of breaking Prairie State biometric privacy laws with its use of a system requiring fingerprint authentication to access pay stubs… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Arizona’s attorney general has launched a lawsuit against Google LLC that accuses the company of defrauding users about their privacy while targeting them with a “sweeping surveillance apparatus,” according to a heavily redacted complaint filed Wednesday in state court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Life sciences company 10x Genomics Inc. experienced a data breach and attempted ransomware attack amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the company revealed on Wednesday in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 