The EU wants to get a move on with General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) oversight, to stop corporate negligence and infractions! No more waiting two, three and four plus years, as was the case with Meta and Google, for European regulators to issue decisions. Now, the European Commission will insist regulators handling large-scale cases that impact citizens in multiple countries provide the Commission with every-other-month progress reports.
One massive database. Info on nearly every New Zealander. More than 100 breaches (though many were minor). But that’s still small consolation to anyone whose data may be at risk. Since 2013, IDI’s data trove has gathered information from government departments and shared information, including from Census surveys, with 1400 researchers – and the list keeps growing. There have been more than 100 breaches since 2015, and the pace has been accelerating causing concern.
GoodRX, a discount drug app used by millions to find lower prices on prescription drugs, has been accused by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of sharing users’ personal data about medications and illnesses with Facebook, Google and other companies. Done without authorization, this is in violation of federal rules requiring health apps to notify consumers of wrongful disclosure of information. The company, though denying the charges, has agreed to settle. Additionally important, according to the New York Times, is that “this is the first time the FTC has brought... Read More >
Customer engagement platform Twilio has integrated with OpenAI’s Realtime API to enable Twilio customers and developers to build AI-powered conversational apps. The integration will support the creation of speech-to-speech voice conversations featuring AI agents. This is an expansion of existing Twilio/OpenAI integrations.