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Female health application Flo's "Anonymous Mode" feature, created with assistance from global law firm Dechert, enables the app's 48 million users to use its health services without personally identifiable information. In the gaming space, developer King's privacy notice, created with legal design agency Amurabi, is mirrored after its games to engage users in an interactive experience. For their unique privacy and data protection services, Dechert and King and Amurabi received the 2022 HPE-IAPP Privacy Innovation Awards, for the Americas and EMEA/APAC regions, respectively.

A potential loophole within the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act has been exposed, Biometric Update reports. In the recent federal court case, Powell v. DePaul University, an online student claimed the school defied BIPA by "using an online remote proctoring tool to capture, store, and disseminate his and other students’ facial geometry data” without consent. DePaul was granted dismissal after claiming it was a financial institution exempted from BIPA under Title V of the U.S.

Thousands of Apple and Google mobile applications were found to contain computer code developed by a Russian software company disguised as a U.S. company, Reuters reports. The apps, including some used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Army, were made by Pushwoosh. Upon contact by Reuters, the CDC removed seven of its public apps, while the Army removed an app in March after it was used by soldiers at a combat training base.

Google reached a $391.5 million settlement with 40 state attorneys general over allegations its location tracking misled users, The New York Times reports. The state attorneys general said the settlement, which followed a four-year investigation, is the largest involving internet privacy by U.S. states. Under the settlement, Google agreed to clarify its location tracking disclosures in 2023.