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The US International Trade Commission has a new website to help US companies with transferring data from Europe and the European Economic Area, the UK, Gibraltar and Switzerland. This follows the agreement on the Data Privacy Framework principles for commerce, which have just come into effect, though personal data may not be received until individual dates of adequacy are recognized. However, companies can begin to self-certify their compliance on the site.

Consumers are evolving their trust in generative AI, according to a report from The Kearney Consumer Research Institute (KCI), which found 50% of consumers surveyed had tried AI, but 44% said they don’t usually trust it. Those from the US, UK and France were more concerned about loss of human contact, while others from Germany, India and China focused more on data privacy risk. So, while AI can’t be the sole solution to target and engage with consumers, people are receptive to having it augment human interaction.

Security industry group IPVM claims the photos are from Hikvision cameras that were hacked, though the company forcefully denied knowing about it. Telegram has since taken down channels, but this is part of ongoing concern over how Telegram monitors its content.

Plans are for money to be spent hiring media bias researchers and enhancing media rating tools for foreign-language content.

Ireland’s regulator, which is responsible for Meta in the EU, has determined its Twitter-rival Threads does not sufficiently meet GDPR or EU privacy standards, so won’t be allowed there for the foreseeable future. Concerns are Threads uses sensitive Instagram user data, such as health, location, and search history, as well as behavioral and ad info.

ChatGPT’s ‘Browse with Bing’ recently launched as ChatGPT Plus, a paid feature that enables users to access information beyond the year 2021. However, the service is currently disabled for repair following discovery that it also allowed users to bypass paywalls.

The EU just announced its data transfer pact with the US, saying terms meet EU GDPR adequacy requirements. But the noyb privacy non-profit led by Max Schrems already plans to challenge it.

The shock over the need to shift away from cookies and reliance on third-party data is giving way to a focus on the upside of using first-party data. A Twilio survey of marketers, business owners, and consumers across APAC found 75% of APAC marketers believe first-party data is more useful than third-party data, and 74% of consumers there are willing to share more information with trusted brands.

Three hundred and ninety scientists and researchers from thirty-four countries published an open letter outlining their reasons for opposing the EU’s proposed Child Sexual Abuse regulation. Key among their concerns was that the law would rely on results from potentially flawed encryption scanning technologies that have not been thoroughly tested for such use and that could easily violate children’s privacy via data that was encrypted and decrypted.

Estimates are that data of about 50 million Bangladeshi citizens was leaked.

The law tracks closely with the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA), which passed last year.