Italy’s Garante, which has been an aggresive proponent of AI regulation among EU regulators, announced it will increase scrutiny of generative and machine learning AI applications. This follows its recent success in getting ChatGPT maker OpenAI to make changes to its ChatGPT to bring it into GDPR compliance.
When Oracle bought consumer data collection vendor AddThis in January 2016, GDPR was barely a cloud on the horizon and Facebook’s Cambridge Analytics deal was still a well-kept secret. Times have changed and Oracle’s once-grand consumer data ambitions have shriveled. Oracle pulled AddThis from Europe in 2019 and will discontinue all remaining AddThis services starting tomorrow.
Following a Washington Post report that claimed Google does not consistently delete user location history of visits to “sensitive locations,” such as fertility and abortion clinics, a group of US Democratic senators wrote to Google for explanation. Concern is that Google is not upholding its promise to delete data that can reveal private health care decisions.
Salesforce is buying Airkit.ai, which builds low-code, AI-powered e-commerce customer service agents. You might have thought Salesforce could already do that, but presumably Airkit does it better. It doesn’t hurt that the company founders sold a previous business to Salesforce, the company was partly funded by Salesforce Ventures, and the product is already listed on AppExchange. Price was not announced.