EU
- OECD publishes a policy paper on AI training data collection mechanisms.
- Austrian data authority has ordered Microsoft to stop tracking school children.
- Paris cybercrime agency OFAC to investigate Apple’s voice assistant, Siri.
- Italian data protection authority-imposed restriction on Clothoff, a deepfake app.
- NOYB filed a complaint against an AI reporting platform for allegedly selling personal data.
USA
- The Office for Civil Rights reached USD 182,000 settlement with a healthcare provider over unauthorized disclosure of patients’ protected health information.
- The Department of Justice filed a complaint against a social media company for allegedly targeting children through deceptive practices.
- California Privacy Protection Agency fined the country’s largest rural lifestyle retailer, USD 1.35 million for privacy violations.
- New York AG announced that social media companies must report their content moderation policies.
- Maryland Online Data Privacy Act has officially come into effect.
- Pennsylvania House approved the Solomon Data Breach Bill.
- Social security disability advocacy group to pay USD 1 million to FTC for Illegal and misleading calls to consumers nationwide.
- Colorado’s new law enhancing privacy protections for children’s online data has entered into force.
- Montana’s revised privacy law addressing biometric, genetic, and neural data is now effective.
APAC
- Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology concluded its public consultation on the Draft Law on Artificial Intelligence.
- India’s Competition Commission released a report examining the intersection of AI and competition in digital markets.
