Stanford Cyber Policy Center's Program on Platform Regulation Director Daphne Keller wrote for Lawfare regarding efforts to regulate online speech and the subsequent compliance implications.
Large language models can read "invisible characters" because of a component in the Unicode text encoding standard and combined with normal text that users unknowingly paste into prompts in a practice known as "ASCII smuggling," ARS Technica reports. The LLMs most susceptible to ASCII smuggling were the Claude web app and Claude API from Anthropic.Full story
In final installment of a two-part look back at U.S. state privacy law developments in 2024, Husch Blackwell Partner David Stauss, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPT, FIP, PLS, and Future of Privacy Forum U.S. Legislative Team Senior Director Keir Lamont, CIPP/US, discuss trends in sectoral privacy and AI legislation filed to statehouses across the U.S.Full story
Democratic U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter publicly expressed her support for FTC Chair Lina Khan, amid speculation she could be replaced in a potential Kamala Harris presidential administration, Punchbowl News reports. "I would really hope she sticks around. She's doing a great job. I'm really proud of the work that we've done," Slaughter said.
The Philippines' National Privacy Commission issued a draft advisory on guidelines for child-oriented transparency. The guidelines would apply to all "personal information controllers" that process children's personal data. The measure would require those controllers to adopt a risk-based approach to informing children of the processing activity, while accounting for age. The public comments on the draft are due 6 Nov.
The Baden-Württemberg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information published version 2.0 of a discussion paper outlining the legal basis for how personal data can be processed for AI model training and use.
In an audit of 48 municipalities, Denmark's data protection authority, Datatilsynet, found some need to improve data security measures, including following the process of deleting data and making sure no personal data is included in emails. The agency gave each municipality an individual report on what data security practices they should improve.Full story
Delivering remarks to the Berufsverband der Datenschutzbeauftragten Deutschlands Autumn Conference, European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiórowski outlined his vision of how data protection officers should function in the present and going forward.
Members of European Parliament Michael McNamara, of Ireland, and Brando Benifei, of Italy, will lead the Parliament's AI monitoring group and the EU AI Act's implementation, Euronews reports. Benifei was a co-rapporteur on the regulation while McNamara was an Irish Parliament member before joining the European Parliament in July.Full story
South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission and the Korea Communications Commission will conduct a joint survey of text message service providers in November to assess potential weak protection systems. The collaboration is part of an ongoing effort to improve digital data security by the two agencies, which will also hold a seminar on the dispute resolution system 21 Nov.Full story