Pending final approval, Sri Lanka plans to amend its Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA). Changes include providing greater flexibility for cross-border data flows and giving data controllers more flexibility to decide on storage and access, particularly for AI.
Amazon Ring homeowners will soon get a snap & tag feature called Familiar Faces that will identify friends, family — and anyone who comes within shutter view of their camera. No bother with permissions, as it would be too time consuming to ask anyone – service, delivery, postal workers, neighbor’s kids – who may pass by if they mind.
The Danish government announced plans for a social media ban to protect children under age 15. The ban, which lawmakers believe necessary since Big Tech hasn’t provided sufficient safeguards for kids, will take a few months to come into effect. This will set a new standard in the EU and follows a landmark ruling in Australia last December which marked the world’s first social media ban for children.
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.