Maine lawmakers weighed a bill that would establish a working group to study the use of AI, social media and cell phones in public school settings Wednesday. While a member of the public testified in support of the legislation, some members of the Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs worried about the cost, the effort's potential redundancy and that it could place an undue burden on Department of Education staff.
AI-driven platform for digital identity verification Socure announced Tuesday that Rivka Gewirtz Little was promoted to chief growth officer. Most recently she was chief of staff for Socure CEO Johnny Ayers. Previously, she was senior vice president of market and strategy at Socure and led global fraud strategy at Goldman Sachs.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) is crafting a children's online privacy code, it blogged Tuesday.
Meta will train its AI models using photos and posts from Facebook and Instagram users in the European Economic Area starting at the end of May, the Norwegian data protection authority warned Tuesday. It provided information about the training and what people can do about it.
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) wants feedback about proposed guidelines on processing personal data through blockchains, it said Monday.
The EU's recent drive to streamline rules in the digital and other sectors could mean potential adjustments to the Data Act and other laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Commission said. But while the EC contemplates possibly cutting red tape, it notes that companies covered by the Data Act have until Sept. 12 to comply with it.
Privacy must transcend regulation and become entwined with ethical principles such as trust, which is something consumers expect from companies, privacy professionals said during a panel at the Osano Privacy Pro Summit Thursday.
The Irish Data Protection Commission announced Friday it's investigating how social media site X processes personal data from publicly accessible content that EU/European Economic Area users post on its platform to train Generative AI Large Language Models. A major focus of the probe is X's Grok chatbot, which an LLM of the same name powers. The probe will examine X's compliance with a range of General Data Protection Regulation provisions, including the lawfulness and transparency of the processing, the DPC said.
Civil society organizations were nearly excluded from a Maryland AI working group, the Electronic Privacy Information Center said Friday. However, consumer privacy advocates will get to join the group under the version of HB-956 that passed the Maryland General Assembly earlier this week, EPIC said.
An Arkansas comprehensive privacy bill (SB-258) failed again to get enough votes to pass the Senate on Thursday.