Greta Thunberg Plans To Trademark Her Name And Movement

Climate activist Greta Thunberg is seeking to trademark her name and the Fridays for Future campaign in a move meant “to protect the movement and its activities,” she wrote on Instagram on Wednesday.

In her post on the photo-sharing platform, Thunberg said she and her fellow school strikers have “absolutely no interests in trademarks, but unfortunately it needs to be done.”

The trademarks would cover the 17-year-old Swede’s name, as well as the name of the “Fridays for Future” movement and ‘Skolstrejk för klimatet’ (which translates as “School strike for the climate” in Swedish), the slogan on a sign she held during her weekly solo climate protests outside of Sweden’s parliament which inspired similar protests by other activists.

The climate activist said the trademark was needed because her name and that of the movement “are constantly being used for commercial purposes without any consent whatsoever.”

https://www.climatedepot.com/2020/01/30/greta-thunberg-plans-to-trademark-her-name-and-movement/

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>Dozens of pre-credentialed members of the press were forced to wait outside for over an hour (it’s 30 degrees)

Thanks that gave me a chuckle and WARMS my Heart KEK

Facebook pays $550m settlement over illegally-collected facial recognition data

Facebook has agreed to pay $550m to users in Illinois who sued it over its storing of biometric data without consent. This allowed the social network to automatically tag photographs—and to build a vast database of facial recognition data. It also contravenes the state's privacy laws, reports the BBC:

The case has been ongoing since 2015, and the settlement was announced in its quarterly earnings. It comes as facial recognition use by the police, and in public spaces, comes under intense scrutiny. The lawsuit against Facebook was given the go-ahead in 2018 when a federal judge ruled it could be heard as a class action (group) case. The appeals court disagreed with Facebook's attempts to stop this, and in January the Supreme Court also declined to review its appeal.

Facebook made the facial recognition feature opt-in a few months after the state Supreme Court left them on the hook.

https://boingboing.net/2020/01/30/facebook-pays-550m-settlement.html