Privacy News & Issues
RBC reports that a Russian court has fined Google …. a helluva lot of money (2 undecillion rubles, which converts to US$20.5 decillion). But do the plaintiffs have any chance of actually collecting it? The total amount of claims from 17 Russian TV channels to Google has reached 2 undecillion rubles, a source familiar with…
Tori Guidry of Troutman Amin, LLP writes: A class action lawsuit has been filed in the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of California residents, alleging that Domino’s Pizza, Inc. and ConverseNow Technologies, Inc. secretly intercepted and recorded phone calls placed by California customers. Plaintiff alleges that Domino’s utilized ConverseNow’s Voice AI technology, which wiretaps…
John Kaag writes: In this age of information and surveillance, privacy has become a necessary watchword—a countermeasure to the constant documentation of what we say, do, buy, and consume. Though the implications of the term have changed with the rise of the internet and other digital technologies, people have long been wary of intrusion into their…
Garance Burke and Hilke Schellmann report: Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.” But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers…