A proposed class action filed in Chicago on 4 September 2026 says Meta harvested Facebook and Instagram photos to build the NameTag face-recognition feature for its smart glasses and to train the Emu and Muse Image models. We read the 66-page complaint, WIRED’s five NameTag stories, the ACLU letter, the patent, the Illinois statute and its 2024 amendment, and counted where the coverage and the complaint diverge.
Eight days after Twitch switched on AI training by default, a Connecticut streamer filed a class action against Twitch and Amazon in the Northern District of California. The complaint accuses both companies of harvesting broadcasts, videos, clips and chat logs to train Amazon’s generative AI since as far back as 2024 — without consent and without payment. This article breaks the case down in plain language: the four legal claims and why copyright is deliberately missing, Mike Minton’s “nobody would opt in” admission, the same-day terms change, the market price of licensed training data, how the case compares with Bartz, Kadrey and NYT v. OpenAI, and the lessons for any business repurposing user content for AI.
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