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Illinois legislator is trying to ban violent video games in the state

TechSpot

has filed an amendment to a 2012 law that prevents some video games from being sold to minors. House Bill 3531 would amend that law, prohibiting the sale and rental of all “violent video games” in Illinois. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that rep. Marcus Evans Jr.

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ICE just signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI

The Verge

Clearview AI has been in the spotlight since a January investigation from The New York Times showed that its facial recognition technology was in widespread use among law enforcement agencies and private companies.

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Angry MacBook owners get class action status for butterfly keyboard suit

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The suit covers anyone who purchased an Apple MacBook with a butterfly keyboard in seven states: California, New York, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, Washington, and Michigan. It raises the stakes for a suit that was first filed in 2018 , three years after Apple added the controversial butterfly switches to its laptops.

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Texas is suing Meta over Facebook facial recognition

The Verge

The lawsuit, filed today in state district court , claims Meta’s Facebook photo tagging system violated the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier (CUBI) Act. Texas is one of a few states — alongside Illinois and Washington — with a biometric privacy law. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Clearview AI hit with sweeping legal complaints over controversial face scraping in Europe

The Verge

Privacy International (PI) and several other European privacy and digital rights organizations announced today that they’ve filed legal complaints against the controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI. It then sells access to that database — and the ability to identify people — to law enforcement agencies and private companies.

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Clearview AI is closer to getting a US patent for its facial recognition technology

The Verge

The technology is allegedly less accurate when identifying people of color and women , potentially leading to false arrests when used by law enforcement agencies. Last year, the company said that its technology was used by over 2,400 police agencies — including the FBI and Department of Homeland Security — to identify suspects.

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University will stop using controversial remote-testing software following student outcry

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Students head to class at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. | The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign announced that it will discontinue its use of remote-proctoring software Proctorio after its summer 2021 term. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images.

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