Report from Financial Times In Brief – A group of over 1000 individuals, led Nobel laureates, policymakers, and celebrities, have signed a public statement calling for the development of AI “superintelligence” to be halted until there is “broad scientific consensus...
Germany Puts a Spike in Latest EU Chat Control Effort to Break Encryption
Report from Euronews In Brief – German opposition to the latest version of the EU child sexual abuse material (CSAM) message scanning bill, dubbed the Chat Control regulation, has led to it being pulled from the agenda of a meeting of EU justice ministers. The draft...
Austrian Privacy Advocates File Criminal Complaint Against Clearview AI
Report from Courthouse News In Brief – Austrian data privacy advocacy group Nyob (None of Your Business) announced that it filed a criminal complaint with Austrian authorities aiming to have executives of US-based facial recognition firm Clearview AI held personally...
UK Court Largely Rejects Getty Images Copyright Claims Against Stability AI
Report from Reuters In Brief – A London High Court ruling has handed a victory to artificial intelligence firm Stability AI in a closely watched case testing whether copyrighted material can legally be used to train AI models without the authorization of the copyright...
Indian Court Overturns Regulator Ban on WhatsApp Data-Sharing for Ads
Report from Medianama In Brief – India’s National Company Law Tribunal (NCLAT), a judicial appeals panel, has set aside part of an antitrust order from the country’s competition authority in ruling that Meta’s WhatsApp service could continue to share the user data...
Chat-GPT Output Similar Enough to Copyright Works for Trial to Proceed
Report from Courthouse News In Brief – A federal judge in New York has denied OpenAI’s motion to dismiss a direct copyright infringement claim brought by a group of authors who allege the AI giant violated federal copyright law by using their copyrighted works to...
European Digital Sovereignty Drive Impacted by Germany-France Split
Report from Politico In Brief – Although EU-wide concerns with economic and strategic vulnerabilities caused by overwhelming reliance on non-European technology providers have taken hold on the continent and calls for “digital sovereignty” are increasingly...
Meta Granted More Time to Ease Change to User Feeds in Netherlands
Report from Telecompape In Brief – A Dutch court has extended until the end of 2025 the time that Meta has to modify the Facebook and Instagram services used in the Netherlands to allow users to easily set a chronological feed as the default for their homepage and...
Federal Judge Approves Settlement of Mobile Device Location Data Class Action
Report from MediaPost In Brief – District Judge Lynn Winmill has granted final approval to a class-action settlement requiring data broker Kochava to overhaul its privacy practices following allegations that it sold users’ location data without consent. Kochava agreed...
France Temporarily Suspends Effort to Shut Down Shein
Report from Reuters In Brief – The French Finance Ministry has suspended proceedings aiming to block the website of Chinese retail marketplace Shein in France that it initiated after government officials reported that they found illegal products, including “childlike”...
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Federal Trade Commission Proposes Policy on Personalized Pricing
Report from the Washington Post In Brief – The Federal Trade Commission has proposed exposing companies to federal charges if they secretly use personal data to vary prices based on what individual consumers are believed to be willing to pay. FTC Chairman Andrew...
Apple Will Change App Data Use Prompts to Settle German Probe
Report from Euractiv In Brief – Apple has settled an antitrust investigation by Germany’s competition authority by agreeing to redesign privacy prompts that third-party app developers show mobile users when seeking consent to use their data for targeted advertising....
Roblox Agrees to Implement Additional Child Safety Practices in Australia
Report from Engadget In Brief – Roblox has agreed to the demands of Australia’s eSafety Commissioner to undertake a series of court-enforceable changes to strengthen protections for young users against grooming and sexual abuse. The gaming platform, which has faced...
TikTok Settles US Government COPPA Lawsuit with $400 Million Payment
Report from MediaPost In Brief – TikTok has agreed to pay $400 million to settle Justice Department allegations that it violated the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting personal information from users under 13. The settlement...
Court Overturns Ban on Perplexity Shopping Agent Accessing Amazon
Report from MediaPost In Brief – A federal district court injunction barring Perplexity's AI shopping agent, Comet, from accessing Amazon has been overturned by an appeals panel of the US Ninth District that found it was unlikely that the AI company would be found to...
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