Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On August 1, 2024, the Office of the New York State Attorney General (“OAG”) released two Advanced Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPRM”) for the SAFE for Kids Act and the Child Data Protection Act (the “Acts”). The OAG began the rulemaking pursuant to a mandate from the New York legislature to issue regulations…
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Without your consent, X now uses your data to train grok: change your settings now!
Today’s Risky Biz News points out a X (Twitter) privacy issue. Your data can now be used by default to train grok (AI), and they haven’t even announced this change. A user sounded the alarm: Twitter just activated a setting by default for everyone that gives them the right to use your data to train…
Google defends itself in proposed class action, says it never collected users’ personal information
Michael Gennaro reports: Google argued at a motion for summary judgment hearing Thursday afternoon that a proposed class action filed by Google users over data collection is meritless. At issue in the case is the Web and App Activity toggle in Android device’s settings. Turning the toggle off prevents future web and app activity being…
Social media platforms that mine user data aren’t shielded by federal communications law, California court says
Edvard Pettersson reports: Meta and Snap, insofar as they are in the business of mining and monetizing users’ data, can’t hide behind the Stored Communications Act to avoid turning over posts and communications to the defendant in a murder case. A San Diego-based appellate court rejected the arguments by the two social media companies on Tuesday and…