The Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) just clarified when pseudonymized data is or isn’t considered personal data under GDPR. So, if you handle, share or receive any, check your data sharing, documentation, and contracts to ensure you comply.
Texas just made history – and is probably making Big Tech pretty nervous – by landing a $1.3 billion settlement of two suits it had brought against Google. These claimed the company tracked user location deceptively, collected biometrics, and misled consumers who thought they had privacy in “Incognito” browsing mode. It’s the largest privacy settlement to date brought by a US state.
Character.AI, a role-playing startup that engaged teens in open-ended chats, is changing to become a “role-playing platform” in response to lawsuits and claims that two or more teens died of suicide after prolonged engagement with its chatbot.
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.