The U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission reached an agreement on pursuing antitrust investigations against Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia over their alleged monopolistic roles in the artificial intelligence industry, The New York Times reports. Per the agreement, the DOJ will lead the investigation into Nvidia, while the FTC will head the investigations into OpenAI and Microsoft.Full story
Spain's data protection authority, Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, published a blog post overviewing all of the free tools for data controllers and processors to utilize for complying with the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
AI Now Institute co-founder and Signal President Meredith Whittaker claimed there could be harmful privacy implications as artificial intelligence develops, Axios reports. Due to the high cost of AI model development, "tech companies will inevitably try to pay for them by selling our personal information," Whittaker said. Full story
Euractiv reports privacy rights group NOYB filed complaints with data protection authorities in 11 EU member states regarding Meta's privacy notice updates involving artificial intelligence training data. The claims seek an "urgent decision" on the legality of Meta's reported plans to utilize Facebook and Instagram posts to train its AI model.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand may investigate a potential privacy breach that allegedly occurred during the 2023 election, RNZ reports. Former employees of the Te Pāti Māori political party claimed the party used census information to appeal to individuals during the election.
Members of European Parliament are expected to address addictive social media features in the digital fairness check after 2024 parliamentary elections, Euractiv reports.
Two top artificial intelligence developers and a key EU AI Act negotiator used the closing general session at the IAPP AI Governance Global 2024 to discuss their respective views on the role of regulation as the AI industry continues to change. IAPP Staff Writer Caitlin Andrews recaps their insights on the timing of the AI Act and how developers weigh their drive to innovate against their responsibility to use AI with care.Full story
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched a team dedicated to enforcing data privacy and security provisions of state privacy laws. The team, established within his office's Consumer Protection Division, will focus on enforcing data privacy provisions of laws such as the Data Privacy and Security Act, the Data Broker Law, the Biometric Identifier Act, and the Deceptive Trade Practices Act, as well as federal laws including the U.S.
Microsoft's 365 Education platform is subject to two recent complaints before Austria's Data Protection Authority brought by privacy rights group NOYB, TechCrunch reports. The first complaint alleged students' data was processed unlawfully, while the second complaint alleged the company clandestinely tracked children with cookies embedded in Microsoft 365 Education, regardless of consent. Full story
The White House released a statement from U.S. National Cyber Director Harry Coker Jr. detailing responses received from cybersecurity experts in the public and private sectors to a request for information issued last year on how to better harmonize cybersecurity regulations.