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CMA lays foundation for AI oversight
The UK competition regulator has warned that companies could develop entrenched market advantages from AI foundation models, placing consumers at higher risk of AI-enabled fraud.
18 September 2023
Barbara Thiel again fails to challenge successor appointment
An appeal court has said Lower Saxony’s former data protection head lacks standing in her challenge to the appointment of her successor.
18 September 2023
The chips are down: AI newsletter 18 September 2023
Tech giants’ AI projects are being threatened with death by a thousand copyright cuts, with yet another author attaching himself to litigation against the alleged wilful pilfering of his intellectual property. But concerns over the ethics of building AI models hasn’t stopped the rush to do so, with front- and back-end companies teaming up on the next generation of the technology.
18 September 2023
OpenAI and Microsoft data harvesting class action dropped
Plaintiffs have voluntarily dismissed a class action alleging OpenAI steals internet users’ personal data to develop its software.
18 September 2023
Google pays $93 million over location privacy claim
The California Attorney General’s Office has secured a $93 million settlement and new location-tracking features for all US Google account holders.
15 September 2023
Delaware joins the fold: US Privacy and Cybersecurity Alert 15 September 2023
Delaware’s governor signs the state’s data privacy bill into law; California’s largest healthcare provider pays $49 million to settle claims it illegally disposed of medical waste and patient data; and RELX’s chief data security counsel joins Morrison & Foerster.
15 September 2023
TikTok fined €345 million
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has found that TikTok failed to adequately protect children’s data, after the EDPB stepped in to resolve disputes between member state regulators.
15 September 2023
Dutch privacy class action wave hits Google and Twitter
Big Tech companies continue to face a series of mass claims in the Netherlands, with Google and Twitter being the latest to face NGO-led representative action lawsuits.
14 September 2023
ECJ opinion puts sports out of GDPR bounds
A European Court of Justice advocate general has controversially proposed excluding any sector not already governed by EU law from the scope of the GDPR.
14 September 2023
Noyb launches new attack on mobile app tracking
Privacy NGO noyb has filed complaints with France’s data protection authority against mobile app providers, claiming they illegally access and share user data with third parties for tracking purposes.
14 September 2023