#privacy-law

#privacy-law

In 1973, long before the modern digital era, the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) published a report called "Records, Computers, and the Rights of Citizens." Networked computers seemed "destined to become the principal medium for making, storing, and using records about people," the report's foreword began. These systems could be a "powerful management tool." But with few legal safeguards, they could erode the basic human right to privacy - particularly "control by an individual over the uses made of information about him."

The complaint, filed on Jan. 20 against the Santa Clara startup Eightfold AI, which contests the claims, represents a new flashpoint in the use of AI for hiring. Filed by two California workers, the lawsuit alleges that Eightfold's technology "lurks in the background" of many companies' application processes, providing hiring managers with AI-generated reports that score candidates using personal information that they might not have included in their applications.

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Every day, corporations track our movements through license plate scanners, building detailed profiles of where we go, when we go there, and who we visit. When they do this to us in violation of data privacy laws, we've suffered a real harm-period. We shouldn't need to prove we've suffered additional damage, such as physical injury or monetary loss, to have our day in court.

"This decision misunderstands how our products work, and we will appeal it," Google spokesman Jose Castaneda said Thursday. "Our privacy tools give people control over their data, and when they turn off personalization, we honor that choice."

The complaint from Charles Borges, the chief data officer at the SSA, alleges that Doge staffers effectively created a live copy of the entire country's social security data from its numerical identification system database. The information is a goldmine for bad actors, the complaint alleges, and was placed on a server without independent oversight that only Doge officials could access.

This verdict sends a clear message about the protection of digital health data and the responsibilities of Big Tech. Companies like Meta that covertly profit from users' most intimate information must be held accountable.

Meta argues that generative AI models need large and diverse datasets which can only be achieved through real human discussions found in Facebook and Instagram posts.

Many Californians are receiving cash settlements from a lawsuit against Thomson Reuters over its data collection practices that allegedly put personal identities up for sale.