Buried in Meta’s $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids’ data
Reported by TechCrunch · techcrunch.com · August 27, 2026
Meta’s settlement with 29 states allows it to retain certain data from children under 13 to train and test age-detection models, highlighting a privacy trade-off built into the deal.
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What to watch: AI infrastructure spend continues to concentrate in compute, memory, and power equipment.
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