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Attorney General Paxton has sued Google, alleging that the tech giant has unlawfully captured and used the biometric data of millions of Texans without properly obtaining their informed consent to do so.  The lawsuit alleges that Google, in yet another violation of Texans’ privacy, has collected millions of biometric identifiers, including voiceprints and records of face geometry, from Texans through its products and services like Google Photos, Google… Source link

Attorney General Paxton has sued Google, alleging that the tech giant has unlawfully captured and used the biometric data of millions of Texans without properly obtaining their informed consent to do so.  The lawsuit alleges that Google, in yet another violation of Texans’ privacy, has collected millions of biometric identifiers, including voiceprints and records of face geometry, from Texans through its products and services like Google Photos, Google… Source link

A key component propping up consumer prices is cooling, but it’s not yet reflected in the government’s inflation measure, according to experts. The shelter component of the Consumer Price Index — which includes rent and owners’ equivalent of rent — makes up 30% of overall inflation and 40% of core CPI, which excludes food and energy prices. Real-time data is showing softening rents, but the survey used to determine shelter prices lags current pricing. That disconnect could pose a problem… Source link

After a two-year investigation, Gioacchino Gammino, 61, was tracked down in Galapagar, Spain, where he lived under a fake name. The town is close to the capital Madrid. A Google Maps street view picture portraying a man who looked like him in front of a fruit shop was key in triggering a deeper investigation. “The photogram helped us to confirm the investigation we were developing in traditional ways,” Nicola Altiero, deputy director of the Italian anti-mafia police unit (DIA), said. Gammino, a… Source link

Haunting pictures have captured the infamous Irish asylum that tortured homosexuals and treated the mentally ill with lobotomies for two centuries before finally closing its doors just seven years ago. In one image, three leather-clad doors stand open in the maximum-security wing of the asylum leading to padded cells which once held patients considered to be high-risk. In another, human bones remain in a bathtub – alluding to the horrors that once took place within the asylum’s walls. The… Source link