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Reason is OpenAI is fighting a court order that requires those chats be stored due to a New York Times copyright lawsuit against the company.

What’s the problem? Consumer groups including noyb objected to Meta’s plan to ingest social media posts and use them for another purpose citing violation of GDPR, but the court decided Meta met the conditions for legitimate interest.

With no expense spared, promises of untold riches, and a dream of total surveillance, the Trump administration and Palantir have pledged their troth. This to form a perfect union of US citizen data from department to department, coast to coast. Palantir’s Foundry product was just sold to the Department of Defense to organize and analyze data…and likely to build out detailed personal profiles on pretty much everyone.

Oregon legislature serves up bill to governor that bans some targeted ads to users under age 16 (and also prohibits the sale of precise location data).

Texas Governor Greg Abbott last signed the state’s App Store Accountability Act, which requires mobile app stores to verify users’ ages and get parental consent before users under 18 make downloads or purchases. Similar laws have been passed in several other states and most have been partially or totally blocked by the courts on First Amendment grounds.

This, on the condition that DOGE employees undergo the same vetting, training, and mitigation procedures as regular Treasury employees. The Democratic states that filed the original complaint agreed to the new conditions.

A survey by the Identity Theft Resource Center found that 87% had been asked for biometric information at least once in the past year. Nearly two-thirds (63%) said they had serious concerns about providing the data but 91% complied anyway. Only 17% were offered a non-biometric alternative.

Four million, seventy-three thousand, four hundred minutes can seem an eternity focusing on privacy when businesses want to put profits first. Apparently, that’s what the last nine years felt like to many who are determinedly lobbying the EU Commission for a break. Reports are these GDPR naysayers may get wishes granted, if, as privacy activists fear, Brussels bends to lobbying pressure.

Really, what’s ten years give or take, holding off legislation to control AI? And, why would we want to? Trump’s trumpeted and, to many, alarming, “One Big Beautiful Bill” is now headed to the Senate. Bundled inside is language saying no state or local government may enforce regulatory control over AI for a decade. If AI isn’t able to laugh yet, this might push it over the edge.

The Show Me State of Missouri is now the first in the US to censor content moderation. Pushing the limits of free speech, and despite Supreme Court rulings to the contrary, Missouri under its Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, will no longer allow Big Tech to regulate screen content. Instead, it will allow users to pick who they want to moderate content, alleviating the need to be shown anything they don’t already think.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Fairplay have written to CEO Sundar Picihai requesting Google immediately suspend rollout of its Gemini AI chatbot to young children. Concerns are the product can be very addictive and that it may violate the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).