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ChatGPT resolves Garante's data protection concerns

TechCrunch reports Italy's data protection authority, the Garante, removed its limited block of OpenAI's ChatGPT after the company rectified alleged data protection issues. The regulator ordered limits on the popular generative artificial intelligence tool's data collection 31 March and gave OpenAI a 30 April compliance deadline over EU General Data Protection Regulation allegations concerning legal bases for processing data and children's data protection.

China's SCCs translated

The IAPP published in its Resource Center an unofficial English translation of China's standard contractual clauses, created by Reed Smith. Released by the Cyberspace Administration, China's SCCs and SCC Regulations are effective 1 June and indicate that all three major legal mechanisms under China's Personal Information Protection Law are fully established with the necessary details for implementation.Full Story

US military bought 'granular movement data' from third parties

The U.S. military "is buying the granular movement data of people around the world" through the location services in a number of popular apps, Vice reports. Apps including a Quran app with 98 million downloads around the world and popular classified listing app Craigslist were among those the military is harvesting data from. The publication "uncovered two separate, parallel data streams" the U.S.

Starbucks may face class-action lawsuit over cookie consent management

A group of U.S. attorneys is looking to speak with Starbucks customers from California, Florida and Pennsylvania as part of a potential privacy-related class-action lawsuit, ClassAction.org reports. Customers who went to Starbucks.com and changed their cookie settings to only "required cookies" may have had their privacy violated, the attorneys claim.

Gaps in existing laws highlight need for federal privacy legislation

A comprehensive federal law is needed to fill gaps in existing sector-specific U.S. laws, members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce heard Thursday. In the 36th hearing held in U.S. Congress on privacy and data security over the last five years, witnesses urged the passage of federal legislation, namely the American Data Privacy and Protection Act.

A view from DC: Zero trust game with privacy, AI

IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, offers his take on the latest privacy developments in the nation's capital and around the U.S., including thoughts on how to forge trust at the intersection of privacy and artificial intelligence as new AI deployments keep cropping up.Full Story

A view from Brussels: Will the proposed EU-US Data Privacy Framework be enough to save data transfers? 

European Parliament reaches political deal on EU AI Act

Euractiv reports members of the European Parliament reached a provisional political deal Thursday on the EU Artificial Intelligence Act. According to the report, the text is still subject to small adjustments before a "key" vote on 11 May, but it is expected to move to a plenary vote in June. "We have a deal now in which all groups will have to support the compromise without the possibility of tabling alternative amendments," a European Parliament official said.

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