{"id":118508,"date":"2021-01-14T12:24:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T20:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/ftc-settlement-with-ever-orders-data-and-ais-deleted-after-facial-recognition-pivot"},"modified":"2021-01-14T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T20:24:06","slug":"ftc-settlement-with-ever-orders-data-and-ais-deleted-after-facial-recognition-pivot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/ftc-settlement-with-ever-orders-data-and-ais-deleted-after-facial-recognition-pivot","title":{"rendered":"FTC settlement with Ever orders data and AIs deleted after facial recognition pivot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ftc-settlement-with-ever-orders-data-and-ais-deleted-after-facial-recognition-pivot2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The maker of a defunct cloud photo storage app that pivoted to selling facial recognition services has been ordered to delete user data and any algorithms trained on it, under the terms of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/press-releases\/2021\/01\/california-company-settles-ftc-allegations-it-deceived-consumers\">FTC settlement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator investigated complaints the Ever app \u2014 which gained <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/11\/01\/photo-app-ever-removed-its-spammy-sms-feature-after-apple-banned-it\/\">earlier notoriety<\/a> for using dark patterns to spam users\u2019 contacts \u2014 had applied facial recognition to users\u2019 photographs without properly informing them what it was doing with their selfies.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposed settlement, Ever must delete photos and videos of users who deactivated their accounts and also delete all face embeddings (i.e. data related to facial features which can be used for facial recognition purposes) that it derived from photos of users who did not give express consent to such a use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The maker of a defunct cloud photo storage app that pivoted to selling facial recognition services has been ordered to delete user data and any algorithms trained on it, under the terms of an FTC settlement. The regulator investigated complaints the Ever app \u2014 which gained earlier notoriety for using dark patterns to spam users\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}