Privacy News Round-Up #64 
⦿ Telegram has been disclosing user IPs since 2018, Durov says (Telegram has been disclosing user IPs since 2018, Durov says — TradingView News): According to founder and CEO Pavel Durov, crypto-friendly instant messenger Telegram has been disclosing IP addresses of criminals to authorities since 2018.
⦿ License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars (License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars | WIRED): From Trump campaign signs to Planned Parenthood bumper stickers, license plate readers around the US are creating searchable databases that reveal Americans’ political leanings and more.
⦿ NASA Bought Facial Recognition Tech Clearview AI (NASA Bought Facial Recognition Tech Clearview AI): NASA bought access to Clearview AI, a powerful and controversial surveillance tool that uses billions of images scraped from social media to perform facial recognition, according to U.S. government procurement data.
⦿ Meta fined $101.5M for 2019 breach that exposed hundreds of millions of Facebook passwords (Meta fined $101.5M for 2019 breach that exposed hundreds of millions of Facebook passwords | TechCrunch): Reset your clocks: Meta has been hit with yet another privacy penalty in Europe. On Friday, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced a reprimand and a €91 million fine — around $101.5 million at current exchange rates — after concluding a multiyear investigation into a 2019 security breach by Facebook’s parent company.
⦿ San Francisco rolls out AI-powered cameras to combat crime (San Francisco rolls out AI-powered cameras to combat crime | Fox News): City officials believe that these mobile surveillance units will help deter criminal activity and provide evidence for investigations and prosecutions.