London — A video clip of Catherine, the Princess of Wales, shopping with her husband Prince William, emerged this week but has failed to quash speculation about Kate’s health. Interest is so high, it would seem, that it may have led a London clinic worker to break the law in an effort to obtain Kate’s … Read more
NH Business: Over 1300 bills in NH Legislature – a look at bills on housing, energy, data privacy, environment, telecom Fred Kocher sits down with Michael Skelton, the President and CEO of the Business & Industry Association of NH, to walk through legislative proposals that could impact businesses as well as many of us Updated: … Read more
Drew Angerer | Getty Images With generative AI tools like ChatGPT bound to create more powerful personal assistants that can take over the role of customer service agents, the privacy of your online shopping chat conversations is becoming a focus of court challenges. Generative AI relies on massive amounts of underlying data — books, research … Read more
Today, November 23 was filled with interesting developments in the artificial intelligence ecosystem. In the first incident, a report suggests that OpenAI researchers sent the board directors a letter warning of a powerful AI discovery, that they said could even threaten humanity. This happened just a day before Sam Altman was fired. In other news, … Read more
Alphabet Inc.’s Google considered creating a more private way to search the internet that wouldn’t track the sites users visited, according to testimony from a senior vice president in the government’s landmark antitrust case against the company. The year was 2019 and Google was in defense mode as tech companies dealt with the fallout from … Read more
Data Privacy AdobeStock_313089358 Data privacy is a major concern, given how much of our lives are spent online and how much information consumers share with companies. And recently, increased AI adoption has created new challenges in governing that data, because of new pathways for storing and using personal data. Because of this, it’s imperative that … Read more
In a recent court filing on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has raised concerns that Elon Musk, the head of X Corp. (formerly Twitter), may have breached a 2022 FTC order regarding privacy and security practices. The DOJ’s filing urges the judge to reject X Corp.’s plea … Read more
X, the social network that used to be known as Twitter, updated its privacy policy to include a new kind of user data it plans to collect: biometric. “Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” the company said in its new policy. X doesn’t … Read more
The Iraqi government on Sunday ended a week-long suspension of the Telegram messaging app over “national security” concerns after the move drew criticism from pro-Iran factions. On Sunday morning the app was again accessible without the need for a virtual private network (VPN), AFP journalists in Baghdad said. Iraq’s ministry of communications had on Saturday … Read more
Weeks after its international launch, Worldcoin is drawing the attention of privacy regulators around the world, with the Kenya’s government going so far as to shut down the service indefinitely. The international ID startup, backed by big names in Silicon Valley, is now having to defend itself in investigations over whether the biometric data that … Read more