Slip-sliding away? California, which has previously led the way in privacy legislation, has opted to forgo rules it had drafted to regulate AI and similar systems. This results from the California Privacy Protection Agency’s decision to accede to business pressure to narrow the definition of “automated decision making,” allowing companies to opt out of rules by claiming algorithmic tools are just advisory to human decision making.
The data of billions of US citizens who use sites like Expedia and Booking.com is conveyed to airlines via the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), according to newly released information. This data, including itinerary and financial information, is then sold to US Immigration Customs and Reinforcement (ICE). In further police state news, the US Health and Human Services (HHS) agency is proposing to obtain US Postal Service data, including information on package- and mail-tracking, credit cards and other financial information, IP addresses, and images of the outsides of envelopes and packages.
OneDrive’s forthcoming “Prompt to Add Personal Account to OneDrive Sync,” an “ease-of-use” prompt feature designed to enable click-of-the-screen synchronization of personal accounts with business accounts also is a default agreement that user files (potentially including those with sensitive data) can be transferred. Security experts point out business data could also then be copied to personal accounts if IT departments don’t block this.
Snowflake-oriented CDP Simon Data was warehouse-centric before “composable CDP” became a thing. They’ve now continued at the cutting edge of the industry by renaming themselves Simon AI and adding a slew of AI features for personalization and agent-based workflows.