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Augmented Reality Filters May Violate Privacy Law–Hartman v. Meta

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The tsunami of anti-AI laws (and other laws against synthetic content) put all of those AR filters in jeopardy–after all, they produce fake algorithmically-generated images. But before we get there, AR filters are in jeopardy due to an old-school privacy law, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).

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The Shifting Landscape of U.S. State Data Privacy Laws in 2024

JD Supra Law

state data privacy laws in the U.S. Seven additional states have enacted comprehensive privacy laws, raising the total number of states having their own privacy laws to nineteen. Aside from the number of new laws enacted in 2024, the considerable differences in the scope and content of these laws are of.

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Do Mandatory Age Verification Laws Conflict with Biometric Privacy Laws?–Kuklinski v. Binance

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

California passed the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) nominally to protect children’s privacy, but at the same time, the AADC requires businesses to do an age “assurance” of all their users, children and adults alike. Doing age assurance/age verification raises substantial privacy risks. Choice of Law.

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Cloudflare to EU: Anti-Piracy Measures Shouldn’t Harm Privacy and Security

TorrentFreak

. “Where IFPI needs to obtain the customer’s contact information, Cloudflare will only disclose these details following a subpoena or court order – i.e. these disclosures are mandated by law and are not an example of the service’s goodwill or a policy or measures intended to assist IP rights holders,” IFPI wrote.

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Media Laws, Rights & Privacy Of Celebrities

IP and Legal Filings

Celebrities have objected to this because it interferes with their personal lives and their right to privacy. Celebrities have objected to this because it interferes with their personal lives and their right to privacy. Every individual has the right to control his or her own life and image as it is portrayed to the rest of the world.

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Why Privacy And Trade Secret Law Are On A Collision Course

JD Supra Law

Can privacy law and trade secret law coexist, or is compliance with both impossible? We are experiencing the fourth industrial revolution, driven by the rise in data and connectivity, analytics and artificial intelligence. Originally published in Law360 - August 7, 2023. By: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

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Forwarding Piracy Warnings Violates Privacy Law, Dutch Court Rules

TorrentFreak

According to Ziggo, linking IP addresses to specific subscribers raises serious privacy concerns, even if the personal information isn’t shared with BREIN. This means that linking an IP address to subscriber information would violate Dutch privacy law, which is based on the European GDPR.

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