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Peter Cade via Getty Images On December 19, 2023, the FTC filed a complaint against Rite Aid for the company’s use of AI facial recognition technology in its stores from approximately, October 2012 to June 2020. The complaint details Rite Aid’s alleged failure to “take reasonable measures to prevent harm to consumers from its use of facial recognition technology,” which constituted unfair acts or practices in violation of Section 5(a) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. §45(a).
JGI/Tom Grill via Getty Images Background: Hidden tracking technologies, Health Data, and the HHS In June 2022, The Markup, a technology-focused investigative news organization, revealed that Meta Pixels were embedded in the websites of several American hospitals, including on website pages only accessible after entering user authentication.
Authors: Chloe Altieri, Kewa Jiang Kewa Jiang, CIPP/US, is a 2021 graduate of USC Gould School of Law and a Student Contractor with FPF’s Youth and Education Privacy team. On May 26, 2022, AB-2273, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (ADCA) unanimously passed the California Assembly and moved to the Senate for consideration. California Assembly Members Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) and Jordan Cunningham (R-Templeton) proposed AB-2273, earlier this year.
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