Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert reports: A controversial facial recognition database, used by police departments across the nation, was built in part with 30 billion photos the company scraped from Facebook and other social media users without their permission, the company’s CEO recently admitted, creating what critics called a “perpetual police line-up,” even for people who haven’t done anything…
Category: Breaches
UK: ICO fines TikTok £12.7 million for misusing children’s data
From the Information Commissioner’s Office, April 4: More than one million UK children under 13 estimated by the ICO to be on TikTok in 2020, contrary to its terms of service. Personal data belonging to children under 13 was used without parental consent. TikTok “did not do enough” to check who was using their platform…
FTC readies children’s privacy case against Amazon
Josh Sisco reports: The Federal Trade Commission is planning to move forward soon with a case against Amazon over alleged privacy violations stemming from the use of children’s data with the company’s Alexa voice assistant, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The antitrust and consumer protection agency has been investigating Amazon on a…
Italy curbs ChatGPT, starts probe over privacy concerns
Elvira Pollina and Supantha Mukherjee report: OpenAI has taken ChatGPT offline in Italy after the government’s Data Protection Authority on Friday temporarily banned the chatbot and launched a probe over the artificial intelligence application’s suspected breach of privacy rules. The agency, also known as Garante, accused Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) OpenAI of failing to check the age…