New York’s governor has expressed support for the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act and is expected to sign it into law soon. The state attorney general, whose office would be tasked with enforcing the law, also supports it. SAFE would ban internet companies from exploiting children’s data and from using addictive algorithms to keep kids ages 18 and under hooked on social media.
Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) released its first set of protection guidelines for AI use. The stated goal is to nurture development of AI and to help propel Hong Kong into being an innovation and technology hub.
This follows a complaint having been lodged with the European Commission privacy watchdog. According to LinkedIn, the move is meant to alleviate risk of confusion about whether EU citizens could be indirectly targeted based on special categories of data or related profiling categories.
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.