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Judge approves $68 million Google Assistant privacy settlement

The class of Google Assistant users claimed the product recorded private conversations without activation and shared their data with outside platforms.

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Courthouse News Service· Oct 13, 10:57 PMJudge approves $68 million Google Assistant privacy settlement

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Long Island lawmakers grill Flock Safety reps over 'Big Brother' surveillance network“99% of courts upheld Jim Crow laws for 56 years,” Suffolk County Legislator Anthony Piccirillo said in response to Flock reps declaring they simply operate within what the courts allow.

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Saudi OpenAI engineer arrested by FBI for planting covert recording device, DOJ says - Tue, 13 Oct 2026 PSTU.S. Federal agents arrested a Saudi national employed as an OpenAI engineer and charged him with installing a hidden audio recording device in an executive conference room at the AI company, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. The case highlights growing security concerns around sensitive AI research as companies and governments compete fiercely…

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SF: Saudi Employed By Openai Accused Of Planting Hidden Recording DeviceA 35-year-old citizen of Saudi Arabia who was an employee at OpenAI was accused by federal prosecutors on Monday of installing a hidden audio recording device at the artificial intelligence company's...

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What to know about the search of Democratic Rep. Omar's homePresident Donald Trump's administration has taken the unusual step of searching Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's home in Washington, just three weeks before the midterm election.

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Why experts are urging parents to prepare kids for possible livestreamed executionGraphic video could be clipped, copied and pushed into children's social feeds even if the original stream is restricted.

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Trump admin sued over alleged illegal collection of sensitive voter data from 47 statesA lawsuit alleges DHS collected voter files from 47 states and combined them with commercial datasets, violating federal privacy safeguards.

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The Supreme Court Is Leaning Toward a Digital Privacy VictoryThe Supreme Court appeared likely to side with a customer who invoked a semi-obscure federal law to sue Paramount for sharing his personal information with Facebook, during oral arguments on Wednesday, though multiple justices signaled that they might constrain such lawsuits in future cases. The case, Salazar v. Paramount Global, has significant…

The New Republic2d agoWhole story →

A Blockbuster-Era Law Won’t Save Your PrivacyIs Chick-fil-A a video store? Is Nordstrom the same as Blockbuster? These were two of the strange-sounding but important hypotheticals solemnly posed by justices of the Supreme Court of the United States during Wednesday’s oral argument, in Salazar v. Paramount Global, Inc., a dispute over a 1988 statute that purports to regulate what information about…

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19-year-old faces federal charges for exploiting child onlineA 19-year-old Texas man faces up to 30 years in federal prison after allegedly using TikTok to solicit explicit videos from a nine-year-old child in Louisiana. Joseph Leyva, of Castroville, […]

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Biden Administration Took on 'Maneuvers of Communist Nations'Thursday on FNC's "The Ingraham Angle," Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) reacted to recent revelations that then-special counsel Jack Smith used his investigatory powers to create a database that monitored at least 639,000 Americans who back Donald Trump. | Clips

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