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September 6, 2019

Facial recognition: School ID checks lead to GDPR fine - BBC News

Sweden has fined a local authority £17,000 for using facial recognition on school students.

Opinion | Don’t Trust Facebook With Your Love Life - The New York Times

Happiness, brought to you by the company that gave you the Cambridge Analytica Scandal™!

Google, YouTube To Pay $170 Million Penalty Over Collecting Kids' Personal Info : NPR
You Can Now Tell Facebook to Delete Its Internal Record of Your Face

A new feature allows Facebook users to opt out of facial recognition on the social network

A New, More Rigorous Study Confirms: The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel

Online social interactions are no substitute for the real thing.

Mental-health information 'sold to advertisers' - BBC News

Websites offering mental-health tests are selling data to online advertisers, researchers say.

Brave uncovers Google’s GDPR workaround

Brave presents new RTB evidence, and has uncovered a mechanism by which Google appears to be circumventing its purported GDPR privacy protections.

A huge database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online | TechCrunch

Hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts have been found online. The exposed server contained more than 419 million records over several databases on users across geographies, including 133 million records on U.S.-based Facebook users, 18 million records of users in the U.K…