Farah Siddiqi of Missouri News Service reports: Missouri lawmakers are concerned with protecting people from the potential risks of the increasing accessibility of AI-generated images and videos. The Innovation and Technology Committee is planning to vote on the Taylor Swift Act, a bill aiming to make it illegal to publish or threaten to publish AI-generated sexually…
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FTC Denies Application for New Parental Consent Mechanism Under COPPA
March 29 – The Federal Trade Commission has denied an application, without prejudice, by the Entertainment Software Rating Board, Yoti, and SuperAwesome for Commission approval of a new mechanism for obtaining parental consent under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule). The applicants in 2023 requested approval for the use of “Privacy-Protective Facial Age Estimation” technology, which…
Unsealed Documents Provide More Details On Federal Investigators’ YouTube Dragnet
Tim Cushing writes: Earlier this week, reporting by Thomas Brewster for Forbes uncovered yet another way law enforcement is expecting companies like Google to perform their investigative work for them. For a few years now, we’ve covered the use of geofence warrants capable of turning multiple people into criminal suspects, as well as the even more dubious “keyword” warrants, which turns anyone…
Update: Why isn’t the University of Alberta more transparent about research consent?
In June 2023, PogoWasRight.org reported that DataBreaches.net (DataBreaches) had submitted a complaint and inquiry to Canada’s Commissioner of Privacy and Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner. The complaint stemmed from a data leak involving mental health-related information that appeared to be collected by university researchers. The leak had been found by a member of the public…