The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint alleging Sendit; a popular app that integrates with Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat; violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting kids’ data without consent and by deceiving its young users into buying site membership. The third-party app which allows users to send each other anonymous questions, was found sending users fake, suggestive messages, and then charging a fee for users to find out who sent it to them. What was also not clear was that the $9.99 fee for information was... Read More >
In the latest round of AI vs. copyright holders, Character.AI has removed Disney characters from its platform in response to a cease-and-desist letter from the company. It’s unknown if this will prove to be a precedent. OpenAI’s Sora is taking a different approach by requiring copyright holders to opt out of being used.
Meta has announced agreements with USA Today, People Inc., and other news publishers to pay for access to their content and link to their articles in its AI chatbot. It’s a sharp contrast to Perplexity, which the Chicago Tribune and New York Times are separately suing for allegedly scraping content and bypassing paywalls. Despite this deal, Meta apparently still opposes compensating publishers for news links in social media posts.