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…
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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…
Judge approves $725 million deal in Meta data privacy class action
Natalie Hanson reports: A federal judge on Wednesday granted preliminary approval of Facebook parent company Meta’s agreement to pay $725 million to a class of millions of people whose personal information was harvested in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Meta Platforms agreed this past December to pay $725 million to settle claims by its users that the social-media…