HeadFlash Privacy

A streamer sues Twitch and Amazon over using content for AI training without consent, plus California's data broker bill and Flock's privacy battles.

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• Twitch hit with class-action lawsuit over Amazon AI training: 'Twitch sent no email, displayed no pop-up notification, and made no announcement'
• How California can stop Trump from weaponizing immigrants’ data
• Washington state pioneered a privacy model for the nation — when will it finally pass the law at home?
• Flock Safety has been a venture darling. Will data privacy controversies halt its rise?
• Insurers have a lot of data about us. Where do they get it, and how do they use it?

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Dutch regulators fine Uber $964M for automated account suspensions; CBP database abuse exposed; Maryland coalition targets data brokers.

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• Uber fined nearly $1 billion by Dutch regulators over automated suspensions of driver accounts
• CBP Officers And Contractors Abused Government Databases To Stalk Their Exes
• Coalition alleges companies are violating Maryland's new data privacy law
• This free tool shows whether police near you use Flock cameras
• Zero Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets
• TikTok to pay US government $400 million in child privacy settlement
• Stanbic IBTC’s privacy judgment is a warning to every brand holding customer data
• 'PRIVACY OR SAFETY': Flock Safety CEO says people are prioritizing the 'wrong thing'
• Sword attack in Sweden that killed 1 prompts probe into social media
• Protecting Digital Privacy In The Artificial Intelligence Era
• Hidden Watermarks Will Track AI-Generated Text
• World ID Comes to Robots, Letting a Delivery Machine Check Whether You Are a Human | HackerNoon

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Hundreds of fake VPN extensions hit Chrome users, while the FTC warns companies on personalized pricing and OpenAI tests new abuse detection.

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• Hundreds of Fake VPNs Are Flooding the Chrome Web Store
• The FTC is cracking down on companies that charge you a "personalized price"
• OpenAI wants to monitor AI abuse without forcing customers to hand over their data
• 'I've Never Seen This': Massive Collapse in Support for AI Data Centers Captured in New Poll
• Privacy advocates call on Maryland to investigate data brokers

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Four states take Meta to court over alleged child harm; rogue ransomware affiliate scams victims; MIT study finds AI image attribution decay.

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• ‘Harvest their data and hide the truth from the public’: Four states seek billions from Meta over child safety practices
• Rogue ransomware affiliate poses as data recovery firm to steal payments
• Algorithms amplified World Cup racism, says report
• MIT Study Finds that AI-Generated Images Often Can’t Be Traced Back to Their Sources
• White House cuts data centers, batteries, and AR from the US critical technology list — post-quantum cryptography, integrated photonics, high entropy alloys among new additions

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Meta patents facial-recognition glasses that film without prompting; China boots Windows 10 from agencies; ChatGPT ads hit Europe with consent-first model.

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• Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
• McDonald’s Built a 515-Page Dossier on One Customer to Predict What He’d Order Next
• China is removing Microsoft’s Windows 10 from state agencies
• OpenAI builds offerings on consent as it expands ChatGPT ads to Europe
• An AI companion company is hiring a human therapist

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Google's $10M Spirit Airlines data deal faces court review; France warns taxpayers after major hack; Russia expands travel surveillance.

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• Google picked and paid for the firm anonymising the Spirit Airlines data
• US court rejects Verizon bid to recoup $47M FCC fine
• French taxpayers warned after personal data stolen in major hack
• Germany Asylum Payment Card Requires Cardholders to Name Lawyers to State; DPA Rules Illegal
• Russia moves to give security services near real-time access to citizens’ travel data — Meduza

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Norwegian DPA forces SATS to change check-in photo legal basis, while EDPS warns Europol overhaul risks biometric rights.

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• Norway forces SATS to let gym members object to check-in photos
• Europol Expansion Would Put Non-Suspect Fingerprints Into Cross-Border Police Database
• London police apologize after sex abuse complaints against late Harrods owner shared on comms list
• How Google is Making Private AI Practical with Homomorphic Encryption
• You can remove an AI watermark from text by asking a second AI
• 5 Of The Worst Rated Home Security Cameras, According To Consumer Reports
• CRYPTO 2026 Opens Today: AI Systems Are Now Both Tool and Target of Math Attacks
• Forget silicon chip servers, Singapore’s newest data centre needs to be fed
• ‘The great quantum migration’ is coming as more than $2 trillion in digital assets is at risk—nearly the entire value of the overall crypto market
• Hong Kong firm bets on Chinese open-weight models to rival CoreWeave
• Scientists increasingly dependent on ‘black-box’ tools they cannot control or fully understand
• Mikie Sherrill Signed A Voter Data Protection Bill, Then Pulled it After Realizing It Will Hurt Democrats in Elections
• Davis County Splits 2-1 on License Plate Camera Deal Amid Privacy Backlash
• Scam Alert on WhatsApp: Meta tests new AI-powered online safety tool
• People are going to extreme lengths to stop themselves from being filmed through Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’

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Flock cuts data retention to one week, DHS confirms warrantless ad-auction location buys, and Anthropic watermarks all Claude text.

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• Surveillance company Flock moves to increase oversight after police misuse
• Ad Auctions Feed Warrantless Government Surveillance: New Tool Maps Pipeline
• German privacy watchdog urges EU to scrap cookie banners
• Anthropic Is Quietly Watermarking Every Claude AI Output. Builders Are Already Trying to Break It
• Privacy watchdog warns of ‘serious risks’ over EU police agency surveillance – POLITICO

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A single encryption key across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google exposed hidden AI reasoning, 182 credentials recovered, and 62 live API keys found.

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• 'Inner Thoughts' of Every Major AI Model Exposed in Massive Exploit
• Signal Launches Automatic Key Verification to Stop Server-Level Wiretapping
• Private Intelligence Firms Are Selling Dossiers on AI and Data Center Critics - The American Prospect
• Campaigns Are Buying Your Data Right Now. So Is Everyone Else.
• Trump admin delays TANF data sharing plan opposed by blue states

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California's new DROP platform sees 300,000 requests as 600+ data brokers face mandatory erasure; ALPR data flows to police; AI chatbot age checks criticized.

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• How (and Why) to Remove Yourself From Data Miners Tracking You, Using California’s New Privacy Website
• As Repossessions Rise, License Plate Readers Aren't Just For Cops Anymore
• A new surveillance tool can trace people through the devices they carry
• Even the AI assistant inside Russia’s state-backed Max messenger tells users not to trust the app — Meduza
• ITIF Report Warns 98 AI Chatbot Bills Collect Adult ID Data Without Protecting Children

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