Privacy Protection Authorities from around the world have signed a joint statement calling social media platforms to protect publicly available user content from data scraping. Failure to do so may result in legal accountability. Authorities from countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland, Hong Kong (China), Australia, and Mexico have signed the statement.
The authorities’ statement clarifies that “social ...
After six years of extensive deliberations, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act in India was approved into law by the President of India. The law offers an approach distinguishable from the GDPR and imposes notable obligations on “data fiduciaries”, which are comparable to data controllers. These responsibilities include a duty to issue privacy notices in English and 22 additional languages, ...
Meta (formerly Facebook) announced that in the coming months, it will seek the consent of users in the European Economic Area and Switzerland to the use of their personal information for targeted advertising. Meta’s announcement follows judicial and regulatory decisions in Europe, which invalidated the company’s practice of relying on “legitimate interest” as the legal basis to justify processing personal ...
The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority has published guidelines regarding the use of personal medical information of patients that could be misused online due to the data breach incident at the ‘Mayanei Hayeshua’ Medical Center in Israel. The Authority has warned that indications suggest that the cyber-attack may have resulted in theft of information and that any use of this personal ...
A Federal District Court in the United States dismissed Stephen Thaler’s appeal against the U.S. Copyright Office denial of Thaler’s application to register the copyright on an image generated by Thaler’s Artificial Intelligence software, known as the “Creativity Machine.” The court held that a work generated by artificial intelligence without a human author does not qualify for copyright protection.
Thaler ...
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, issued a presidential order directing the departments of Treasury and Commerce to formulate regulations that will impose limitations on American investments in technology companies and ventures in China, specifically those related to artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and semiconductors.
According to officials, the primary objective of Biden’s executive order is not to curtail ...
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