information privacy
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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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If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare
Bad news: your car is a spy. If your vehicle was made in the last few years, you’re probably driving around in a data-harvesting machine that may collect personal information as sensitive as your race, weight, and sexual activity. Volkswagen’s cars reportedly know if you’re fastening your seatbelt and how hard you hit the brakes.…
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Oof, the Prospects of That Big New Privacy Bill In U.S. Congress Look Grim
House Republicans want to drastically change a federal privacy bill that Democrats in the Senate are also threatening to murder. The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) is one of the few pieces of privacy legislation to get the time of day on Capitol Hill in the last few years — even if looks…
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The Hidden Failure of the World’s Biggest Privacy Law
This week, European authorities struck a massive blow to the digital data-mining industrial complex with a new ruling stating that, quite simply, most of those annoying cookie alert banners that sites were forced to onboard en masse after GDPR was passed haven’t… actually been compliant with GDPR. Sorry.