Indiana’s Consumer Data Protection Bill of Rights privacy law goes into effect in January to protect citizens beyond what federal legislation currently provides. It applies to organizations that handle data for more than 100,000 residents or which process information for 25,000 or more residents and which derive more than half revenue from data sales.
Tyler Technologies, which operates websites used by courts in multiple US states to manage data of potential jurors, was found by TechCrunch researchers to have a security flaw that gave access to information about potential jurors and those selected for service. Accessible Information included personal identifiers; questionnaire responses on gender and ethnicity; and possible health data.
The EU Council, which wrestled for years over whether to require message services to protect children from online predators via mandatory scanning of messages, has decided instead to propose that Parliament make chat scanning voluntary. This is prompting concern on multiple fronts, including from child advocates who fear it won’t provide child sex abuse protection and from privacy advocates worried about the risk of leaving decisions on what data to share with police and other authorities without clear guidelines.
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.