The Swedish Data Protection Authority (IMY) has issued a fine of 58M Swedish Crown (≈ €5M) to Spotify, for not fully complying with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The complaint lay dormant for several years until activist group noyb filed litigation against IMY over the lack of a decision.
You may recall that Meta is dead set against paying publishers whose links appear on its site. Coincidentally or not, the traffic from Facebook to such links has fallen by half in the past year, according to data from Echobox. It seems Meta is showing users more videos instead. All fine, but Reuters Institute reports that more people get news from social media than news sites and Facebook is still the most common social media news source, although its share is rapidly falling.
The complexity of regulating AI is a challenge everywhere, but the European Parliament has adopted its negotiating position on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act and is prepared to move ahead with rules to shape the law. Plans range from requiring disclosure of content (for generative systems, like ChatGPT) to full bans on biometric surveillance, emotion recognition and predictive policing.
ChatGPT-4o is the latest model released by OpenAI and available to all (including free) users. The “o” stands for “OMNI,” reflecting the model’s capabilities for voice and image as well as text. For marketing teams, this might mean one source for genAI capabilities rather than switching between LLMs and solutions specifically focused on visuals.