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Re:Google obtains thousands of medical records from the Dept... by dekhn on Thursday January 05, 2023 @09:02PM (#34270000)
This one? https://www.googlebipasettlement.com/ No, you can't assume a settlement means guilt. In this case, Google likely decided that it wasn't worth fighting, cheaper to pay the fine. Google's change is to allow people to opt-out (not opt-in) while keeping the face grouping feature.

I don't really think much of these cases.

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Re:Google obtains thousands of medical records from the Dept... by ocdtrekkie on Thursday January 05, 2023 @09:26PM (#34270180)
I mean, I would agree the law could be stronger here. My face data primarily resides on other people's accounts. It's illegal for Google to have that under BIPA without my consent, but it looks like the settlement is allowing them to continue doing that without my consent (or even agreement to their ToS).

The case may be poor, but only in the reason that it fails to actually force Google to comply with the law going forward. Facebook was more successfully forced to shut down their facial recognition technology and delete all of the data: https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/02/facebook-face-recognition-...

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