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Courthouse News Service
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Facial Recognition

A federal class action claims IBM violated people’s privacy by scanning the faces of 1 million people through nonparty Flickr, without consent, then shared or sold them to third parties.

CHICAGO — A federal class action claims IBM violated people’s privacy by scanning the faces of 1 million people through nonparty Flickr, without consent, then shared or sold them to third parties.

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