Children’s Privacy: Ireland hands TikTok $367M fine for putting kids at risk by default

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) issued its ruling against TikTok, charging €345 million (~ $367 million) for its non-privacy-by-default settings that set children’s accounts to public by default on sign-up, which allowed their videos to be publicly viewable, their comments to be publicly read, and their “Family Pairing” links to adults to be linked to adults not verified to be a parent or guardian.

A UserTesting survey of consumers in the US, Australia and UK found consumers will consider trusting AI for a good retail deal. Of those surveyed – 2,000 US, and 1,000 each in Australia and the UK – 87% of US consumers were willing to exchange personal information for savings and exclusive deals, compared with 24% AU and 27% UK. Around a third (36% US, 28% AU, 39% UK) were willing to use AI for auto-ordering and shopping online.

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This is a concern because companies need to implement more inclusive data-privacy practices to ensure consumer protections are protected at levels to ensure compliance regardless of the state they live in.

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Stick with me here: what if you didn’t have to write good generative AI prompts, but could instead write a prompt that would prompt you to write a better prompt? If your head hasn’t exploded yet, that seems to be the idea behind new auto-complete and rewrite features in Copilot AI for Microsoft 365. Of course, there’s a YouTube video showing how.

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