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Poland’s Office for Personal Data Protection (UODO) is accusing ChatGPT creator, OpenAI of numerous violations of GDPR, including processing data in an unlawful, unreliable manner and not being transparent. This is in response to accusations brought by a privacy and security researcher.  While the regulator anticipates it will be a difficult investigation, the regulator is moving it along very rapidly.

Medtronic, a trusted medical device manufacturer, is alleged to have shared a trove of diabetes patient data with Google. If proven true, fears are that it will result in heightened scrutiny of medical device companies and others. The medical field has worked closely with tech giants since the pandemic and while there have been significant advances in healthtech, there are also major concerns about patient privacy resulting from vastly increased data collection.

The UK’s broad, newly passed Online Safety Bill places the onus on business to proactively screen for and regulate a range of online activity to proactively decide whether it is legal. This goes beyond what other Western countries have done and encompasses responsibility for reducing hate speech, online fraud and child safety.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) wants businesses and influencers who post online ads for children to adhere to new formatting as outlined in its Protecting Kids from Stealth Advertising in Digital Media report, to clearly delineate advertising from content. In addition to providing icons to use, the FTC also recommends providing just-in-time disclosures to distinguish the ads.

Ontario’s government-funded birth registry and the US educational non-profit, the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) are believed to be among thousands of organizations impacted by a mass-hack that targeted MOVEit, a file transfer tool organizations use to share large data sets over the internet. The National Student Clearinghouse breach impacted close to 900 schools and Ontario confirmed their data breach affected 3.4 million people who sought pregnancy care.