Big Tech companies and other artificial intelligence startups are stepping up their lobbying efforts in California to prevent the passage of California Senate Bill 1047, which would require developers of large AI models to conduct safety tests to prevent risks of "catastrophic harm," The Wall Street Journal reports.
The IAPP partnered with the Cordell Institute at Washington University in St. Louis on a report exploring privacy curricula at U.S. law schools. The report provides an overview of privacy education offered over the past year to help frame how privacy is currently taught and inform future curriculum development.Full story
South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission and the Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technology met with six car companies to understand what challenges they face to developing automated driving vehicles.
Ransomware groups were responsible for more than 2,570 cyberattacks during the first half of 2024, Cybersecurity Dive reports. A study by software company Rapid7 also found a 23% increase in posts on data leak websites with 68 ransomware groups leaking stolen information through 2,611 posts.Full story
Consumer Reports found tools that claim to delete personal information from people-search websites are mostly ineffective. The study used 13 people-search websites to delete information from 32 volunteers and found some of participants' information remained on the websites within the "one-week, one-month, and four-month intervals." Full story
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office assessed a 6 million GBP provisional fine against Advanced Computer Software Group after initial findings from a probe showed the provider did not have sufficient protections to keep its customers safe after a ransomware attack.
The Washington Post reports on the rise of age-verification artificial intelligence companies and the risks they can pose to children's online safety. The tools are meant to help parents set guardrails around their children's internet usage, however, skeptics said the gathering of children's faces creates opportunities for that data to be exposed and exploited.Full story
Hackread reports Jerico Pictures, doing business as National Public Data, sustained a data breach that exposed 2.9 billion records, including personally identifiable information. Full names, addresses, cities, counties, states, ZIP codes and Social Security Numbers were among the breached data.
Artificial intelligence is now playing an instrumental role in companies' data governance and compliance efforts. The latest example is the launch of Relyance AI's Asset Intelligence Data Security Posture Management, which offers organizations total visibility into the data they collect and verifies it is stored in a manner consistent with the contractual obligations with third parties and legal requirements in whatever jurisdictions they operate.
The Netherlands' data protection authority, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, issued guidance for companies using chatbots powered by artificial intelligence. The AP said chatbots tend to leak personal data to the company that developed the original model, such as Microsoft or OpenAI, after the company deploying the chatbot feeds personal information into the model.