Over on Infosec.Exchange yesterday, @Chum1ng0 posted a quick poll: The Brazilian government is developing a pilot project that allows citizens to own, manage, and sell their personal data to companies through a digital wallet. Would you participate in this program to sell your personal data if you had the opportunity? How would you have voted?…
New York passes a bill to prevent AI-fueled disasters
Maxwell Zeff reports: New York state lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that aims to prevent frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic from contributing to disaster scenarios, including the death or injury of more than 100 people, or more than $1 billion in damages. The passage of the RAISE Act represents a win for the…
Synthetic Data and the Illusion of Privacy: Legal Risks of Using De-Identified AI Training Sets
Mark D. Metrey of Hudson Cook LLP writes: As artificial intelligence (AI) systems grow more advanced and data-driven, organizations are turning to synthetic and de-identified data to power model development while purportedly reducing legal risk. The assumption is simple: if the data no longer identifies a specific individual, it falls outside the reach of stringent…
States sue to block the sale of genetic data collected by DNA testing company 23andMe
Caroline Petrow-Cohen reports: Dozens of states have filed a joint lawsuit against the bankrupt DNA-testing company 23andMe to block the company’s sale of its customers’ genetic data without explicit consent. The suit, filed this week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Eastern District of Missouri, comes months after 23andMe began a court-supervised sale process of its assets….