Ashley M. Robinson of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP writes: Comedian Sarah Silverman and authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden recently filed class-action lawsuits against Meta Platforms (parent company of Facebook) and ChatGPT maker OpenAI (backed by Microsoft Corp.) for allegedly using their copyrighted content without authorization to train artificial intelligence (AI) language models. Meta and OpenAI’s AI language…
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In SEC Battle, Covington Ordered to Disclose Names of 7 Clients
Abigail Adcox reports: U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta of the District of Columbia has ruled that Covington & Burling must disclose to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission the names of seven clients whose information may have been exposed in a 2020 cyberattack that impacted the firm. “Covington shall produce to the Commission the names…
EPIC Urges CFPB to Take Decisive Regulatory Action Against Data Brokers
July 17, 2023 PRESS RELEASE: WASHINGTON, DC – The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is calling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to take decisive regulatory action to protect consumers from the predatory business practices of data brokers. In response to the CFPB’s inquiry into the shadowy data broker industry, EPIC filed extensive comments highlighting the vast range of…
What Meta’s $1.3 Billion Fine Means For Threads And For Organizations When It Comes To Data Protection
Shelly Kramer at V3B writes: In May 2023, Meta was fined a record-breaking 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for breaching the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The DPC ruled that Meta broke privacy laws by transferring Facebook EU users’ data illegally from Europe to the United States—and I believe this…