The data of 7.5 million customers of BoAt, which bills itself India’s top audio and wearables brand, has been exposed and has surfaced on the dark web, according to Forbes. Leaked data includes personal information including names, addresses, customer IDs and email IDs and may expose customers to phishing, fraud, and identity theft.
The California Journalism Preservation Act (not yet in force) will require digital platforms to pay a “journalism usage fee” for linking to news stories. Google’s response: remove links to California news websites. Facebook has taken similar measures in several countries and a new report suggests that the result is memes taking over from hard news.
The US may have moved closer to a federal privacy bill with the newly fashioned American Privacy Rights Act (APRA). The bipartisan bill introduced by Washington State lawmakers, one a Democrat and the other a Republican, draws on US state privacy laws and on tenets of GDPR. It posits a private right of action for recourse against companies for non-deletion of data or not obtaining proper consent, a right for individuals to opt out of ads, and the right to prevent transfer or sale of their data.
It’s deal-making time for generative AI model builders and publishers who can provide them with quality data. Germany publishing giant Axel Springer is trading access to its data for Microsoft adtech, AI, and Azure hosting solutions. Meanwhile, The Financial Times has struck a deal with OpenAI to license its content with attribution of summaries and quotes.