Privicera survey reveals significant challenges in ensuring data security in the Cloud. Seventy percent of Fortune 500 data access participants polled found migrating analytics workloads more difficult; 58% reported a conflict of interest between managing analytics and security; and 81% were not confident of PII deletion across data repositories.
Hamburg’s data authority issued an injunction against Facebook to stop processing the WhatsApp data of German citizens. Facebook, which recently issued new terms for continued use of WhatsApp, has 60M German users. The regulator challenged the legality of Facebook’s update and issued a 3-month order preventing the company from continuing data processing.
Disqus Inc., the U.S. company which provides a forum and online tools for publishers, received notification from Norwegian data protection authority, Datailsynet that it was acting in violation of GDPR. The data authority found Disqus tracking, profiling and sharing data with third-party advertisers without legal basis. Disqus said it didn’t realize GDPR regulation applied, since Norway is not an EU member.
Disney has agreed to license more than 200 characters, costumes, and environments (but not voices or talent likenesses) to OpenAI for Sora, its gen AI video platform. This is highly unusual for Disney, which generally sues AI models for copyright infringement; in fact, it sued Google for that a day before announcing the OpenAI deal. Disney will also invest $1 billion in OpenAI, nicely illustrating how very eager they are to join the AI party.