The European Union Parliament and Council last week reached agreement on a comprehensive set of rules for AI development. The rules ban several applications, such as scraping of facial images from public sources, and impose obligations on developers of high-risk systems. Formal votes are still required in both Parliament and Council for the rules to become law.
Meta’s WhatsApp detected a hack targeting 90 users in two dozen countries. Meta said that Israeli spyware company Paragon Solutions is responsible and has sent a cease-and-desist letter. The targets apparently included journalists and “members of civil society.”