general data protection regulation
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OpenAI Could Be in Trouble Over ChatGPT’s Hallucinations About People
OpenAI is under scrutiny in the European Union again — this time over ChatGPT’s hallucinations about people. A privacy rights nonprofit group called noyb filed a complaint Monday with the Austrian Data Protection Authority (DPA) against the artificial intelligence company on behalf of an individual over its inability to correct information generated by ChatGPT about…
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European Union Passes Landmark Big Tech Regulations
In a final vote, the European Parliament elected to adopt both the Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA) on Tuesday. The two related pieces of legislation aim to address some of the major emerging issues of internet and social media companies. The DSA is focused on boosting the efficacy and transparency of…
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China Just Passed a Major Data Privacy Law — With a Big, Government-Sized Loophole
When covid-19 cases started surging through China last year, we saw the country’s already authoritarian surveillance systems get kicked into overdrive. Officials rolled out everything from face-detecting drones and mandated movement-tracking apps to literally harvesting citizen’s blood in order to stem the flow of the virus. Going into 2o21, the country had clearly reached a…
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How Much Should Tech Pay?
European regulators have spent the last few years trying to determine how much you’re worth in data”beyond your email, name, and location, that includes race, religion, opinions, and even promised to go out for scalps, but it’s still unclear how much the policy has delivered. Is $US126.5 ($185) million a lot? I don’t know, and…