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- If You Live in This State, Tech Giants May Soon Be Forced to Wipe Your Data—Here’s Why [inc.com]
Massachusetts is one step closer to requiring tech giants like Meta and Google to delete residents' personal data and ban the sale of precise location information. The state's Consumer Data Privacy Act passed the House last week and now sits on Governor Maura Healey's desk for approval. "Big data brokers have made a fortune by selling some of our most sensitive data," said bill sponsor Senator Cindy Friedman, "and that stops with this bill."
If signed into law, the legislation would protect the more than seven million people living in Massachusetts — and could signal a broader push for state-level privacy rights.
- Amazon-owned Ring Should Pay Americans for Scanning Their Faces, Lawsuit Says [arstechnica.com]
A new class action lawsuit is demanding financial damages for millions of Americans whose faces may have been scanned by Amazon's Ring cameras and analyzed by AI without their consent. (Ring’s "Familiar Faces” feature uses AI to identify people who appear at a camera owner's door.) The lawsuit argues that while Ring has chosen to disable the feature in Texas, Illinois, and Portland due to strict local biometric privacy laws, the rest of the country has been left without the same protections.
"Ring clearly has the ability to follow biometric privacy laws with respect to the Familiar Faces feature," the complaint reads, "but it deliberately chooses not to." The case is the latest in a string of privacy concerns surrounding Ring, which settled an FTC lawsuit over employees illegally watching customers' private video recordings in 2023.
- Second Facebook Privacy Settlement Payment is Coming Soon. Here's What to Know. [cbsnews.comm]
Are you eligible for a payout? Beginning June 9th, some Facebook users will receive a second payment from Meta's $725 million privacy settlement. The settlement stems from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which Facebook was accused of improperly sharing user data with advertisers and data brokers.
The second round comes from funds left uncashed after the first distribution in September 2025, when users received an average of $29.43. Eligible claimants will be notified by email with the subject line "Facebook User Privacy Settlement – Settlement and Second Distribution Status Update."
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