Apple Inc. is facing a proposed class action in federal court in Illinois over claims that its Face ID system secretly captures detailed scans of users' irises and retinas without the written consent required under the state's biometric privacy law.The complaint, filed Saturday, was brought by Samantha Mettler, an Illinois... Read More » Insurer Says It Owes No Coverage to Data Firm Sued Over Meta Smart Glasses Recordings An insurer has gone to federal court in California to argue that it bears no responsibility for defending or paying out claims against Sama, the data annotation company accused of using recordings captured by Meta's smart glasses to help train artificial intelligence systems. In a complaint filed Monday, the insurer contends that the company's own policy explicitly excludes coverage for the type of privacy violations alleged in a wave of consolidated class action lawsuits. The insurer, Travelers Excess and Surplus Lines Co., told the court it has no duty to defend or indemnify Samasource Impact Sourcing Inc. (the company that operates as Sama) in connection with 13 class actions that have been consolidated against it. Travelers had issued Sama an errors and omissions policy and has been footing the bill for the company's defense, but only under a reservation of rights, meaning it preserved the ability to later argue that coverage never applied in the first place. The underlying litigation traces back to March, when users of Meta's AI-enabled glasses began suing both Sama and Meta in the Northern District of California. According to those lawsuits, the glasses recorded video and audio from wearers' everyday lives and funneled that footage to Sama's data annotation operations in Kenya, where employees reviewed and labeled the material to help train Meta's artificial intelligence systems. Plaintiffs say they had no idea this was happening and never