CDP Institute

Bowing to business-interest pressure, Vermont Governor Phil Scott ensured his state wouldn’t be the 18th in the US to pass a privacy bill that was within inches of becoming an admirable, groundbreaking piece of legislation. Apparently, the prospect of Vermonters being able to sue large tech companies for misuse of private information was unacceptable to Scott, and the fact the bill passed in the state’s House and Senate was immaterial.

Not a “no,” but rather a “pause,” “delay” strategy from Meta on AI. This following a filing by advocacy group noyb that resulted in objections from 11 European DPAs and a request to delay being conveyed to the company by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), which has Meta in its jurisdiction.

Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) released its first set of protection guidelines for AI use. The stated goal is to nurture development of AI and to help propel Hong Kong into being an innovation and technology hub.

New York’s governor has expressed support for the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act and is expected to sign it into law soon. The state attorney general, whose office would be tasked with enforcing the law, also supports it. SAFE would ban internet companies from exploiting children’s data and from using addictive algorithms to keep kids ages 18 and under hooked on social media.

This follows a complaint having been lodged with the European Commission privacy watchdog. According to LinkedIn, the move is meant to alleviate risk of confusion about whether EU citizens could be indirectly targeted based on special categories of data or related profiling categories.

Core tenets include only using data to fulfill a request but not retaining it; having privacy components not dependent on outside components; ensuring PCC doesn’t contain privileges to bypass privacy protection; ensuring attackers cannot access individual data; and ensuring verifiable transparency to security researchers.

The International digital rights group, Access Now and Ethiopia’s Centre for Advancement of Rights and Democracy slammed the bank publicly which resulted in the bank taking down names of customers – though it did claim it had recouped almost all its funds prior to that point.