In other biometric news, Home Depot was sued under BIPA by consumers who say the company collected “faceprints” and followed them around the store.

The outlook for a 2019 federal privacy bill.

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act doesn’t prevent a company from scraping LinkedIn’s site data, according to a recent Ninth Circuit decision.

A federal court in California found that customers have the right to sue Facebook over a 2016 data breach—even though the leaked information was publicly available —potentially signaling an expansion of consumers’ ability to maintain data breach class actions.

Google was hit with $57M GDPR fine by French regulators.

The U.K.s Information Commissioner’s Office will impose a $123M GDPR fine on Marriott as a result of newly-acquired Starwood’s data breach.