Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently launched investigations into Character.AI and 14 other technology companies on allegations of failure to comply with the safety and privacy requirements of the Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment (“SCOPE”) Act and the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act. The SCOPE Act places guardrails on digital service providers, including AI…
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Firefox to remove Do Not Track feature
Seen on Risky Biz News by Catalin Cimpanu: Firefox to remove DNT: Mozilla will remove the DoNotTrack feature from Firefox next year. The feature was introduced in 2011 as a way for users to tell websites not to track them. Mozilla says it’s removing the feature because most websites don’t respect it. DoNotTrack will be removed with Firefox…
International operation takes down another encrypted messaging service used by criminals
Europol announces: Authorities are staying on top of the encrypted messaging services that criminals use to undertake their activities. A joint investigation team (JIT) involving French and Dutch authorities has taken down another sophisticated encrypted messaging service, MATRIX. For three months, authorities were able to monitor the messages from possible criminals, which will now be…
Article: The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy
Law professors Daniel J. Solove and Woodrow Hartzog have written an article on an important topic in privacy. Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) systems depend on massive quantities of data, often gathered by “scraping” – the automated extraction of large amounts of data from the internet. A great deal of scraped data is about people. This personal…