The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has published interim measures for the regulation of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) services. These measures will apply to organizations and individuals providing GAI services in China, including content generation (text, images, audio, and video). Developers who do not offer services based on GAI will be exempt from these rules.
The measures require the prevention ...
Earlier this month, the governor of Texas signed the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act ("TDPSA") into law. Meanwhile, the Oregon legislature passed the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (“OCPA”), sending it to the Governor of Oregon for signature. These two laws mark Texas and Oregon as the tenth and eleventh states in the U.S. to enact data protection legislation, following ...
Amazon has settled with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on two separate charges, and will pay over 30 million dollars in aggregate for alleged privacy violations related to its Ring and Alexa devices.
Amazon will pay nearly six million dollars to settle Amazon’s privacy violations and practices of misleading consumers regarding its smart doorbell and home security camera service “Ring”. ...
The European Commission has announced that the United States is an adequate country for the transfer of personal data under the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). The adequacy recognition means that the United States provides a level of protection of personal data essentially equivalent to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The announcement concludes a trans-Atlantic process triggered ...
The French National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) approved a legislative amendment authorizing the French police to access smart devices to locate the whereabouts of suspects in crimes punishable by at least five years imprisonment. The police will also be authorized to remotely record and take pictures of suspects in terrorist offenses, juvenile delinquency, and organized crime. The amendment would allow tracking ...
The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) has published a draft position paper that calls on businesses in Israel to refrain from requesting that consumers provide them with a full copy of their national ID card to receive services.
The PPA’s position paper explains that the PPA has been seeing a growing trend of businesses asking for the consumers’ ID number ...
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