The European Commission has given Meta and Snap a 1 Dec. deadline to provide information on how they protect children from harmful content, Reuters reports. The deadline is similar to the one given to Alphabet's YouTube and TikTok. The actions come after the passage of the Digital Services Act which requires major technology companies to do more to combat illegal and harmful content.Full story
Microsoft briefly blocked employee access to ChatGPT after its internal technology department raised concerns about the software's security protections, The Wall Street Journal reports. Management again allowed access to ChatGPT about an hour later and said the restrictions were made in error. OpenAI, which created ChatGPT, is backed by Microsoft.Full story
Brazil's data protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, released guidance for ensuring the Safe Stadium Project complies with the General Data Protection Law. The project seeks to use facial recognition technology in sports stadiums to identify individuals who may have engaged in fan violence or racism during prior events.
The Guardian reports the health information of more than 500,000 U.K. residents donated for medical research was shared with health insurance companies without consent. Medical research company Biobank claims the company only allowed researchers to view the health data collected.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's ruling that says automakers did not violate wiretap laws by "allegedly intercepting and recording" text messages through a car's infotainment system, MediaPost reports. The court stated there was limited evidence to suggest data obtained from the car's system had been used maliciously.Full story
The proposed Artificial Intelligence Act is at risk after several EU member states objected to the bill's provisions around generative AI models, Euractiv reports. The latest proposal contained a tiered rule system for software that was likely to have greater effects on society, something countries France and Germany have been resistant to after facing pressure from AI companies Mistral and Aleph Alpha.
As companies in the U.S. begin to deploy generative artificial intelligence tools that scrape data from the web to train their models, IAPP Principal Researcher for Privacy Law and Policy Müge Fazlioglu, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, writes many of these companies now find themselves facing lawsuits alleging the theft of proprietary data.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development adopted a new definition of "artificial intelligence," which will inform the basis of defining AI within the proposed EU AI Act, Euractiv reports. The OECD's AI definition updates the group's 2019 principles for trustworthy AI policies.
IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, offers his take on the latest privacy and artificial intelligence governance developments in the nation's capital and around the U.S., including a dive into the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's renewed privacy complaint against mobile data broker Kochava.Full story
A view from Brussels: EU formally adopts Data Act
France's Online Child Protection Laboratory will focus on cyber harassment, especially artificial intelligence-generated sexual images, the revision of its charter and working with international partners as part of its 2024 goals.