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A federal judge has ordered IBM to pay $1.6 billion in damages to BMC, a private software company that is both IBM's partner and competitor. BMC sued IBM in 2017 after AT&T -- a huge client for both companies -- dumped BMC's mainframe software products in favor of IBM's own software. BMC alleged the deal violated the careful agreement it made with IBM to work with mutual customers. "IBM is one of the largest technology companies in the world— and it exploited BMC's justifiable reliance for its own gain, cementing its…

Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI has been ordered to delete all data belonging to UK residents by the country’s privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO also fined Clearview £7.5 million ($9.4 million) for failing to follow the UK’s data protection laws. It’s the fourth time Clearview has been ordered to delete national data in this way, following similar orders and fines issued in Australia, France, and Italy. Clearview claims to have scraped 20 billion images from…