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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Google Says Schools Banning AI Won’t Have Google Search Because It’s AI
Report from Mashable In Brief – In response to growing unease about the role of AI in schools, Google has announced that its AI classroom products, such as Gemini, Gemini Notebook, and Gemini in Classroom, will be turned off by default for its academic Chrome Book...
Rhode Island Attorney General Sues Meta Over Fraudulent Ads
Report from MediaPost In Brief – Rhode Island is suing Meta, alleging that the company helped create and optimize fraudulent advertisements and ads for illegal products while misleading the public about its efforts to combat scams. The complaint, filed in Providence...
Swedish Government Blocks Its Employees from ChatGPT and Claude
Report from EuroNews In Brief – Employees of the Swedish Government have been directed not to use browser-based versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude on work computers following concerns about the security of sensitive information. The move follows a...
Texas Sues OpenAI Over Deceptive Statements and Unsafe Chatbots
Report from WBAP In Brief – The State of Texas has sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of misleading Texans about ChatGPT’s safety and asking a court to prohibit minors from using the chatbot in the state. The petition alleges violations of Texas...
Meta Delays New Terms of Use Criticized by Publishers Over AI Scraping
Report from Reuters In Brief – Meta will delay implementing its updated commercial terms of service until November 20 to address concerns from some publishers that the changes could grant the digital giant unlimited rights to scrape their content for AI services. EU...
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