https://www.afinalwarning.com/525526.html (Natural News) On Wednesday, June 2, social media app TikTok quietly changed its privacy policy in the United States to permit itself to collect biometric data from its users.
TikTok, which has over 100 million users in the U.S. alone, introduced a newly added section in its privacy policy titled “Image and Audio Information.” Under the heading of “Information we collect automatically,” the app said it will collect “biometric identifiers and biometric information” such as “faceprints and voiceprints.” The company claimed that it will seek permission to collect the data “where required by law.”
On top of this, TikTok’s privacy policy said it will collect other information in the content its users’ post. It said:
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Last September, the CEOs of four of the biggest tech companies in the U.S. faced the House Antitrust Subcommittee.
At that meeting, the CEOs of Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Facebook (the only one missing was Microsoft s Satya Nadella) were grilled on a wide range of subjects under the broad umbrella of an anti-trust probe.
Then in October, the CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter all faced lawmakers again, this time to defend the legal liability shield that underpins their business models. At the end of February 2021, the judiciary committee s antitrust subcommittee met again to hear testimony from companies and other parties that claim they have been mistreated by the tech giants. And later this month, the bosses of Twitter, Google and Facebook will appear again in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is looking at the way misinformation is posted and spread by their platforms.
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The lawsuit is the second to allege Facebook allowed third-party apps to harvest the data of friends without their permission or knowledge
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U.S.-style opt-out data privacy class actions, which bind a defined group automatically into a lawsuit unless individuals opt out, are still unusual in Britain.
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The lawsuit is the second to allege Facebook allowed third-party apps to harvest the data of friends without their permission or knowledge
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Facebook is facing a second London High Court class action over allegations it failed to protect the personal details of about one million people in England and Wales, in the latest lawsuit to spring from a scandal over data harvesting.
CBI Files Case Against Cambridge Analytica for Illegally Harvesting Users Facebook Data in India
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The CBI has booked UK-based Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research Ltd for illegally harvesting data of Facebook users in India for commercial purposes, officials said on Friday. The action came after a preliminary enquiry into the matter which showed that Global Science Research had created an app thisisyourdigitallife which was authorised by Facebook to collect specific datasets of its users for research and academic purposes in 2014, they said.
The company then entered into a criminal conspiracy with Cambridge Analytica, allowing it to use the data harvested by it for commercial purposes, the officials said. Facebook had collected certificates from both the firms in 2016-17 that data collected by them using thisisyourdigitallife was accounted for and destroyed. However, the CBI enquiry did not find any evidence of any such destruction, according to the o
Cambridge Analytica replied that they had received data from GSRL pertaining to US citizens only. It did not respond to MeitY's further correspondences.