Congress may be closer than ever to passing a comprehensive data privacy framework after key House and Senate committee leaders released a new proposal on Sunday. The bipartisan proposal, titled the American Privacy Rights Act, or APRA, would limit the types of consumer data companies can collect, retain, and use to what they need to … Read more
For the past few months, Morten Blichfeldt Andersen has spent many hours scouring OpenAI’s GPT Store. Since it launched in January, the marketplace for bespoke bots has filled up with a deep bench of useful and sometimes quirky AI tools. Cartoon generators spin up New Yorker–style illustrations and vivid anime stills. Programming and writing assistants … Read more
The US Department of Justice, along with more than a dozen state attorneys general, has filed a lawsuit against Apple that takes direct aim at the iPhone and the company’s lucrative iOS ecosystem. Claiming that Apple had established an “iPhone monopoly,” the suit argues that the company’s allegedly anticompetitive behavior resounds well beyond smartphones themselves. … Read more
Europe changed the rules of the internet this week when the Digital Markets Act took effect, holding the biggest tech companies to tough new standards. Now the world is waiting to see which giant will be first to fall foul of the law. One of the architects of the DMA says Apple is a strong … Read more
“The framework enables a set of binding requirements for federal agencies to put in place safeguards for the use of AI so that we can harness the benefits and enable the public to trust the services the federal government provides,” says Jason Miller, OMB’s deputy director for management. The draft memo highlights certain uses of … Read more
When I first heard in 2013 that Barack Obama had chosen Tom Wheeler to head the crucial tech regulator that is the US Federal Communications Commission, my first thought was … what a sell-out! The new FCC boss had previously been head lobbyist for not one, but two industries: cable TV and cellular telecom. How … Read more
Probably the most outstanding victims of the GamerGate harassment marketing campaign took out a restraining order towards their ex-partner, whose false accusations lent fireplace to the motion. The restraining order did nothing to meaningfully resolve the abuse, but even when it had labored, it wouldn’t have stopped the GamerGate marketing campaign. The marketing campaign was … Read more
TikTok not too long ago introduced that its customers within the European Union will quickly have the ability to swap off its infamously participating content-selection algorithm. The EU’s Digital Providers Act (DSA) is driving this alteration as a part of the area’s broader effort to control AI and digital providers in accordance with human rights … Read more
The Supreme Courtroom receives greater than 7,000 requests to assessment decrease courtroom selections annually, and usually grants lower than 1 % of them. However the probabilities of the Supreme Courtroom reviewing the NetChoice instances are higher than these of a mean dispute. A circuit cut up—notably a high-profile one akin to this—makes the Supreme Courtroom … Read more
Second, it might instruct any federal company procuring an AI system that has the potential to “meaningfully affect [our] rights, alternatives, or entry to essential assets or providers” to require that the system adjust to these practices and that distributors present proof of this compliance. This acknowledges the federal authorities’s energy as a buyer to … Read more