It is fairly standard language in privacy policies: “This privacy policy may be amended or updated from time to time, so please check back regularly for updates.” It sends the message that the company can change its data practices and policies without ever notifying the end-user. It tells the end-user that the burden is on
On Oct. 30, President Joe Biden issued an executive order on safe, secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence.[1]
The executive order provides a sprawling list of directives aimed at establishing standards for AI safety and security and protecting privacy.
While the executive order acknowledges the executive branch’s lack of authority for any lawmaking or rulemaking
Following its many warnings of impending enforcement action against entities providing Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) products, the FTC has officially launched an investigation into OpenAI[1]. The FTC initiates its investigation on the heels of the Center for AI and Digital Policy’s July 10, 2023 supplement to its March 30, 2023 complaint, which requests that
Just last week, researchers at Robust Intelligence were able to manipulate NVIDIA’s artificial intelligence software, the “NeMo Framework,” to ignore safety restraints and reveal private information. According to reports, it only took hours for the Robust Intelligence researchers to get the NeMo framework to release personally identifiable information from a database.[1] Since these vulnerabilities were
Many companies may be quick to dismiss Washington’s “My Health, My Data” (MHMD) as a health data law that does not apply to them. But there are many reasons you should think twice before disregarding this law.
First, unlike the state privacy laws that have been passed so far, MHMD applies to all companies
In this corner, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC):
“Facebook has repeatedly violated its privacy promises,” said Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “The company’s recklessness has put young users at risk, and Facebook needs to answer for its failures.”
In that corner, Meta (formerly, Facebook):
Meta head of communications Andy
On March 16, 2023, the French Data Protection Agency (the “CNIL”) imposed a fine of € 25,000 on the company CITYSCOOT in connection with a finding that CITYSCOOT failed to comply with the obligation to ensure data minimization, as required by Article 5.1.c of the GDPR. The facts that led to the judgment included a
A number of federal privacy laws provide private rights of action, allowing individuals (or class actions) to bring claims alleging violations of certain privacy laws. Some examples of these statutes include the Video Privacy and Protection Act (VPPA), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). What is more is
The Federal Trade Commission will have its eye on privacy and data security enforcement in 2023.
In August, the agency announced that it is exploring ways to crack down on lax data security practices. In the announcement, the FTC explained that it was “concerned that many companies do not sufficiently or consistently invest in securing
Google agrees to pay a historic $391.5 million to settle with attorneys general from 40 U.S. states for misleading users about its location tracking and collection practices. The settlement is the largest ever attorneys general-led consumer privacy settlement.
The attorneys general opened the Google investigation following a 2018 Associated Press article that revealed Google “records