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A study by non-profit Tech Transparency Project evaluated videos recommended by YouTube algorithms and found the platform recommended hundreds of videos about guns and gun violence to boys interested in video games. These included videos that showed how to make and enhance weapons or depicted school shootings – all of which are in violation of YouTube’s stated policies about depiction of firearms and violence, and to protect children’s safety.

Local police across China alerted parents that encrypted communications apps, including Telegram, which can encrypt or immediately erase content, have been used by criminals to defraud children – and sometimes even involve them as accomplices in crimes. Parents were advised to check kids’ cell phones for encrypted apps and to remove them if found.

The vote of 306 to 27 (with 231 abstaining) resulted from the MEPs concerns that the framework proposed had too many weaknesses and that the Data Protection Review Court that would have been created for oversight would not be adequate.

The intended class-action cites the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), which protects individuals from privacy invasion caused by use of devices and techniques.

Telly has a second, ad-filled display sitting below your tv show screen, and it captures intel on what you watch, where you’re located, and then infers what can be known about you based on data collected.

For the last decade, Toyota had one of the worst breaches in the automotive industry with the data of 2.15 million Japanese customers who used their cloud-based Connected service exposed. Connected, which is used for services including traffic updates and to get emergency help, could be accessed without a password due to poor security settings.

It’s easy (and sometimes convenient) not to delete data – but don’t! Google just got called out by a whistleblower for having saved resumes and personal data of EU and UK job interviewees, some who applied a decade or more ago. This violates EU and UK laws which don’t allow long-term retention of data that’s not strictly necessary. The company did in the past year roll out an auto-deletion tool, but that still doesn’t address its earlier non-compliance.

Florida’s privacy Bill 262 heads to the governor to sign, but it only grants state residents limited rights – to know, to correct and delete certain information.  But the law has scant applicability, so is raising the ire of consumer advocates.

Bospar, a PR and marketing firm, published a survey about ChatGPT, AI and the news. From the perspective of the more than 1,000 US adult survey participants, 74% believe a quarter or more of the news will be generated by AI by 2025, and 93% expressed some fear for the future because of that. This seems apt, since of the more than 300 media workers also surveyed, 74% reported having used or experimented with ChatGPT or other generative AI. When asked its potential to affect the news, respondents said generative... Read More >

“Child labor” conjures images of kids working in factories or fields – and it goes far back through human history. A new paper, Play Is a Child’s Work, shows today’s tech world has its own ways of using kids for labor – in large part via social media, which has pulled kids in as influencers, whether on a small scale, or as media-savvy kidfluencers with masses of followers. Alarms have been raised about lines blurring between marketing to children, marketing by children, and recently the cultivation of them as super... Read More >

Advanced collection techniques now make it easy to gather meaningful data from eDNA when it’s collected in large enough quantities. That poses serious risk for genetic data’s privacy and misuse of information.

At the same time, it also is designed to help companies prioritize and analyze AI use cases to optimize ROI in this rapidly growing area.