December 27 NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today secured $300,000 from The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) for disclosing the health information of individuals who visited their website. An investigation by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) found that the hospital used advertising tools on its website that collected and shared private and personal…
New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI for Copyright Infringement
Mark Bergen reports: The New York Times Co. sued Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI Inc. for using its content to help develop artificial intelligence services, in a sign of the increasingly fraught relationship between the media and a technology that could upend the news industry. The technology firms relied on millions of copyrighted articles to train chatbots like ChatGPT and other…
Microsoft 365 Copilot is here. What are the legal risks of using it?
John Farmer writes: … What are the legal risks of using Copilot? The biggest concern is confidentiality. With many generally available generative AIs, such as ChatGPT, anything you put in a prompt is used in the AI’s training. That creates a risk that your input could appear in someone else’s output. Also, the AI provider…
Children’s privacy and AI at heart of this year’s call for proposals for research and awareness projects
From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) today issued a call for proposals for its Contributions Program on the themes of addressing the privacy impacts of new technologies, and protecting children’s privacy. The Contributions Program funds innovative research and public awareness initiatives that seek…