By Leslie Fair for the Federal Trade Commission, July 9 – An anonymous messaging app marketed to kids and teens: What could possibly go wrong? A lot, allege the FTC and the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office. A complaint against NGL Labs and founders Raj Vir and Joao Figueiredo alleges violations of the FTC Act, the…
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Photos of Australian children used in dataset to train AI, human rights group says
Josh Taylor reports: Photos of Australian children have been included in the dataset used by several AI image-generating tools without the knowledge or consent of them or their families, research by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has found. An analysis of less than 0.0001% of the 5.85bn images contained in the Laion-5B dataset, used by services…
Meta defends charging fee for privacy amid showdown with EU
Ashley Belanger reports: Meta continues to hit walls with its heavily scrutinized plan to comply with the European Union’s strict online competition law, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), by offering Facebook and Instagram subscriptions as an alternative for privacy-inclined users who want to opt out of ad targeting. Today, the European Commission (EC) announced preliminary findings that…
Redfin, Zillow named in video privacy lawsuits
HousingWire reports: Redfin and Zillow are at the center of two video privacy suits that were filed on June 25 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. In two separate lawsuits, plaintiff Guillermo Mata accuses the real estate companies of violating the Video Privacy Protection Act and the California Invasion of Privacy Act by allegedly…