A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress

While some states have made data privacy gains, the US has so far been unable to implement protections at a federal level. A new bipartisan proposal called APRA could break the impasse.

WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/apra-congress-online-privacy-proposal/

Large language models and data protection

This explainer takes a look at the main ways in which large language models (LLMs) threaten your privacy and data protection rights.

Post date

14th August 2024

Privacy international .org

 https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/5353/large-language-models-and-data-protection 

FTC Investigation Leads to Lawsuit Against TikTok and ByteDance for Flagrantly Violating Children’s Privacy Law

August 2, 2024 - FTC 

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/08/ftc-investigation-leads-lawsuit-against-tiktok-bytedance-flagrantly-violating-childrens-privacy-law 

A view from DC: Kids' privacy lessons from the TikTok lawsuit

Cobun Zweifel-Keegan

IAPP staff

CIPP/US, CIPM

https://iapp.org/news/a/a-view-from-dc-kids-privacy-lessons-from-the-tiktok-lawsuit

Google makes changes to privacy oversight, worrying policymakers

Sen. Wyden called for the FTC to investigate the tech giant.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/11/google-privacy-oversight-changes-worry-congress-00167427

US Senate advances two child online safety bills

 https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-set-vote-two-child-online-safety-bills-2024-07-25/ 

CrowdStrike update that caused global outage likely skipped checks, experts say

By Zeba Siddiqui

July 20, 20244:40 PM PDTUpdated a day ago

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/crowdstrike-update-that-caused-global-outage-likely-skipped-checks-experts-say-2024-07-20/ 

The Sweeping Danger of the AT&T Phone Records Breach

Telecom giant AT&T says a major data breach has exposed the call and text records of “nearly all” of its customers, epitomizing the dire state of data security.

https://www.wired.com/story/att-phone-records-breach-110-million/ 

The Supreme Court is keeping a hold on efforts in Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users

https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2024-07-01/the-supreme-court-keeps-hold-on-efforts-in-texas-and-florida-to-regulate-social-media-platforms 

DAVID MEDINE·JANUARY 26, 2024

https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/time-for-a-new-privacy-paradigm/ 

California looks to uphold children's privacy law.

 IAPP

https://iapp.org/news/a/california-looks-to-uphold-children-privacy-law/

 California Attorney General Rob Bonta asked the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to reject an injunction meant to keep the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act from going into effect. A federal court granted preliminary injunction against the law in September by an online trade association representing companies such as Google, Meta, Amazon, Twitter and TikTok, which would be required to take steps to protect young users' data under the law.

IAPP - Dec 18, 2023. 

Lawmakers stress data privacy in health AI oversight

Members of Congress hammered privacy concerns in a hearing on Wednesday as interest in artificial intelligence — which relies on patient information to train models — heats up.

 Published Nov. 30, 2023

Emily Olsen, reporter.

Healthcare Dive:

https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/healthcare-ai-data-privacy-house-energy-commerce-subcommittee/701126/ 

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2022.826737/full 

HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY article

Front. Artif. Intell., 13 April 2022
Sec. AI in Business
Volume 5 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2022.826737

This article is part of the Research Topic

Explanation in Human-AI Systems

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AI Technologies, Privacy, and Security

David Elliott† Eldon Soifer*†

• Department of Philosophy and Classics, University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada