Imagine how much fun it would be to have a similar law in every state!

https://1440wrok.com/walmart-hit-with-illinois-class-action-for-biometric-violations/

Walmart Hit With Illinois Class Action For Biometric Violations

Another day, and another really big company is finding itself on Illinois' hot seat for violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, or BIPA.

… By all appearances, it looks like anyone who walked into a Walmart in Illinois might have a claim here.

Illinois resident James Luthe is alleging that Walmart stores in Illinois collected, stored, and used biometric data without getting consent from the customers being scanned.

From the filing:

"Walmart's stores in Illinois are outfitted with cameras and advanced video surveillance systems that – unbeknownst to customers – surreptitiously collect, possess, or otherwise obtain Biometric Data. In addition, Walmart uses software provided by Clearview AI, Inc. to match facial scans taken in its Illinois stores with billions of facial scans maintained within Clearview's massive facial recognition database."

Other companies in the suit include Home Depot, Best Buy, Kohl's, and AT&T.

This has to be a factor in the cost of loans…

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/03/moodys_cyber_risk_ratings/

Moody's turns up the heat on 'riskiest' sectors for cyberattacks

About $22 trillion of global debt rated by Moody's Investors Service has "high," or "very high" cyber-risk exposure, with electric, gas and water utilities, as well as hospitals, among the sectors facing the highest risk of cyberattacks.

That's more than one-quarter (28 percent) of the $80 trillion in Moody's rated debt across 71 global sectors, and it represents a $1 trillion jump from the firm's 2019 numbers, according to the credit rating biz.

For its Cyber Heatmap, Moody's looks at two factors, exposure and mitigation, and weighs both across all of the sectors it rates.

Laws without logic? Faith based law?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/01/texas-social-media-impact/

Tech companies are gaming out responses to the Texas social media law

At some point in the future, Texans who visit social media sites might be greeted with a pop-up screen saying something like: “The content you are about to see contains graphic violence, white supremacist imagery and other objectionable material. If you don’t want to be exposed, click here.”

The pop-up is among a slew of options companies are weighing in response to a Texas social media law that was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit last month. Most of the options being floated would alter tech company services so dramatically that some experts have concluded they would be virtually impossible to execute, say lobbyists that work with the companies.

Proponents of the Texas law, and a similar one in Florida, have said the legislation will prevent tech companies from engaging in censorship by banning them from taking down posts featuring political viewpoints that they disagree with. But the wording of the Texas law effectively bars the companies from moderating or blocking any content that is not already illegal, paving the way, experts say, for terrorist recruiting, white supremacist organizing, posts egging on people with eating disorders, vaccine disinformation, and other harmful material that many websites currently ban.