New Zealand’s regulator will issue a biometrics code draft in early 2024 and invite feedback from experts and the public. The draft code will focus on three main areas: proportionality, which balances why biometrics is being used against its privacy risk; transparency, in terms of providing clear information and notifications; and. purpose limitation, which outlines restrictions on collection and use of biometric data.
Italy’s regulator, one of the most proactive in the EU in investigating AI impact, has invited academics, AI experts and consumer groups to participate in assessing whether online websites are using adequate measures to protect against data scraping by AI platforms. Reuters reports that Italy, France and Germany have already reached agreement on how AI should be regulated and this comes at a time when the EU is completing its AI draft rules.
Meta, the “My Entitlement To your Assets” company has a penchant for using children to get mass amounts of data you might not otherwise give them. In fact, newly unsealed documents from the 33-state & DC Instagram and Facebook lawsuit, shows despite 1.1 million reports of under-age users on its platform, the company only removed a fraction of them and continued to collect children’s personal information. In fact, allowing this federal privacy violation was an “open secret” routinely documented in the company. And, if that weren’t enough, the company also... Read More >
T-Mobile will allow advertisers to target more than 20,000 screens in 11,000 store locations. That’s a lot of screens, but how much foot traffic does the average T-Mobile store get? It’s also linking up with streaming media company Plex as a CTV partner.