The Sh10 billion (US$4M) lawsuit was brought by a Tanzanian businessman who wants compensation for his loss of privacy, which included personal details on calls, SIM information and location data. Vodacom has refuted the accusations.
Norway seems a bit fed up with Meta’s ad targeting behavior, so its regulator, Datatilsynet, imposed a fine of kr1M ($100,000)/day that will begin early August and run into November, unless the Meta remediates it. The regulator also referred it to European Data Protection Board, which could make the fine permanent and/or widen its territorial scope.
The US International Trade Commission has a new website to help US companies with transferring data from Europe and the European Economic Area, the UK, Gibraltar and Switzerland. This follows the agreement on the Data Privacy Framework principles for commerce, which have just come into effect, though personal data may not be received until individual dates of adequacy are recognized. However, companies can begin to self-certify their compliance on the site.
Stick with me here: what if you didn’t have to write good generative AI prompts, but could instead write a prompt that would prompt you to write a better prompt? If your head hasn’t exploded yet, that seems to be the idea behind new auto-complete and rewrite features in Copilot AI for Microsoft 365. Of course, there’s a YouTube video showing how.