WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Texas has filed a lawsuit against Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google for allegedly collecting biometric data of millions of Texans without obtaining proper consent, the attorney general’s office said in a statement on Thursday. The complaint says that companies operating in Texas have been barred for more than a decade from collecting people’s faces, voices or other biometric data without advanced, informed consent. “In blatant defiance of that law, Google has, since at… Source link
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Florida’s insurance market was depleted long before Hurricane Ian made landfall, with six insurers deemed insolvent this year alone. The aftermath of the most powerful storm to hit Southern Florida is expected to exacerbate the slow-moving crisis further, leaving millions of residents in the state without insurance coverage. “Terms like 100-year events and 1,000-year events really aren’t capturing what’s happening,” Craig Fugate, former FEMA director under President Obama, told Yahoo… Source link
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