Meta's ad-free subscription model for EU Facebook and Instagram users is stirring the advertising technology space. While the "pay or consent" concept is not uncommon in the EU, data protection questions loom large as EU regulators review Meta's new approach.
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled it lacked the authority to lift the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's consent order requiring X Corp., which owns the site formerly known as Twitter, to have a privacy and security program and provide evaluations of the program's effectiveness, MediaPost reports.
The Wall Street Journal reports on what Meta's new ad-free subscription service is like as the company attempts to comply with the European Data Protection Board's ruling restricting data collection for targeted advertising. A reporter found Instagram did show fewer ads, but data collection on account interactions and viewed posts reportedly remains a targeting tool.
Sam Altman, the former chief executive officer at OpenAI, will lead an artificial intelligence research division at Microsoft after he was let go 17 Nov. by the startup for "transparency" concerns, The New York Times reports. Microsoft is one of OpenAI's biggest investors.
Brazil's data protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, will hold a public hearing on the role of data protection officers 5 Dec. as part of its rulemaking around the position's duties. The hearing will be held online; participants need to register before 24 Nov.Full story
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a USD6.5 million settlement with multinational financial firm Morgan Stanley after a multistate lawsuit claimed the company put consumer data at risk.
Israel's Privacy Protection Authority released recommendations for best practices with the development of smart home Internet of Things products. The guidance highlights how such devices require "the collection and processing of a lot of sensitive personal information that may, among other things, be leaked and publicly disclosed."Full story
With data privacy getting more attention than ever before, policymakers at the IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2023 in Brussels were reflective about how the EU General Data Protection Regulation has shaped that discussion five years after it took effect. IAPP Staff Writer Jennifer Bryant delves into the successes and challenges the law has presented for the privacy world.Full story
As jurisdictions around the world begin to shape regulations governing the use and development of artificial intelligence, IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, writes, "the policy discourse around AI systems is rife with imprecision and inconsistency." In his weekly dispatch from the U.S. capitol, Zweifel-Keegan discussed how various stakeholders and policymakers worldwide are crafting broad definitions of AI to establish requirements that differentiate between high-risk and low-risk AI systems.
U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner, R-Ohio, released several proposals aimed at extending Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, The Associated Press reports. Turner proposed enhanced penalties for intelligence officials abusing their authority, the ability for Congress to mandate an inspector general review alleged violations and allow a "limited" number of FBI supervisors to authorize Section 702 search queries.