DeepSeek, a Chinese AI platform accused of data theft, spreading propaganda, and violating U.S. export controls by covertly funneling American user data to the CCP and training on material unlawfully obtained from U.S. AI models, has drawn scrutiny from Congress over Nvidia chip sales.
Apple is pioneering private AI by leveraging synthetic data and differential privacy to analyze user data securely, generating artificial datasets mimicking real data to enhance AI models for features like Genmoji, Image Playground, and email summaries while preserving privacy.
Meta plans to utilize public content and user interactions from EU users to train its AI models for better local language and cultural understanding, while offering an opt-out option to comply with regulations and enhance transparency.
Pioneering a privacy-first approach, researchers are developing secure AI agents that prioritize data minimization, encryption, and rigorous auditing to gain user trust, drive adoption in regulated sectors, and simplify compliance with privacy regulations like HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA.
Major tech giants like YouTube and OpenAI are backing a bipartisan bill reintroduced in Congress, the NO FAKES Act, which aims to create new federal IP rights to protect against unauthorized AI deepfakes of people's voices and likenesses, aligning artists and tech on AI issues.
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 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.
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.
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.