Privacy News & Issues
Douglas MacMillan, David Ovalle and Aaron Schaffer report: After two men brutally assaulted a security guard on a desolate train platform on the outskirts of St. Louis, county transit police detective Matthew Shute struggled to identify the culprits. He studied grainy surveillance videos, canvassed homeless shelters and repeatedly called the victim of the attack, who…
Health Care AI, Intended To Save Money, Turns Out To Require a Lot of Expensive Humans Darius Tahir January 10, 2025 Preparing cancer patients for difficult decisions is an oncologist’s job. They don’t always remember to do it, however. At the University of Pennsylvania Health System, doctors are nudged to talk about a patient’s…
Libbie Canter and Jayne Ponder of Covington and Burling write: Attorneys General in Oregon and Connecticut issued guidance over the holiday interpreting their authority under their state comprehensive privacy statutes and related authorities. Specifically, the Oregon Attorney General’s guidance focuses on laws relevant for artificial intelligence (“AI”), and the Connecticut Attorney General’s guidance focuses on…
Garante, (Italy’s data protector) has fined ChatGPT’s OpenAI for processing users’ personal information “to train ChatGPT without having an adequate legal basis and violated the principle of transparency and the related information obligations towards users.” The fine is 15 million euros. In addition to the fine, OpenAI will have to comply with a six-month information…