Senators from both parties slammed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the company's ties to China, accusing him of risking Americans' data while pursuing business opportunities there, and demanded his testimony before Congress to address these concerns.
YouTube throws its weight behind the 'No Fakes Act' to combat unauthorized AI-generated replicas, allowing individuals to request removal while balancing innovation, as it expands its pilot program enabling creators to detect and remove AI copies of themselves.
The Government Accountability Office is auditing Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency for potential privacy violations in its data handling practices across federal agencies, responding to congressional concerns over DOGE's activities.
The bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act, aimed at criminalizing non-consensual intimate imagery and deepfakes, cleared a House committee, gaining widespread support for requiring websites to swiftly remove such content and addressing the growing threat of AI-generated exploitation.
DOGE's controversial plan to rapidly build a 'mega API' granting broad access to IRS taxpayer data by partnering with Palantir raises major privacy and civil liberties alarms among experts, even as DOGE operatives aim to pause IRS modernization for this effort.
As generative AI systems raise novel challenges around data privacy, scope, temporality, and autonomy that undermine traditional consent mechanisms, experts call for new frameworks involving collective governance, technical safeguards, and legal reforms to protect data rights in the AI era.
An AI image generator's unsecured database exposed over 95,000 records, including disturbing prompts and explicit images, some potentially illegal, such as de-aged celebrities made to look like children, leading the company to delete its websites after being contacted.
The bankruptcy of 23andMe, a DNA testing company, sparked widespread fears about the potential sale of millions of Americans' genetic data to the highest bidder, prompting a surge in traffic as users rushed to delete their data and raising concerns about data privacy and national security risks.
Raising alarming privacy concerns, DOGE employees have gained unchecked access to sensitive government databases containing personal and financial information, bypassing laws and protocols, according to federal judges who deemed this level of access unjustified and risky for Americans' privacy.
In a privacy-conscious move, Apple will utilize blurred imagery from its Maps Look Around feature, obscuring faces, license plates, and houses upon request, to train AI models for image recognition, creation, and enhancement tasks, starting in March 2025.