The Federal Trade Commission has issued a proposed order to ban the online counselling service BetterHelp, Inc. The Commission aims at preventing the company from revealing consumers’ sensitive data to Facebook and others for targeted advertising. BetterHelp has been also required to pay $7.8 million for deceiving consumers by promising the protection of their sensitive...
Starting from March 1, 2023, OpenAI has declared it won’t use any data submitted through its API for “service improvements”. Additionally, the company its implementing additional features to have a more privacy-compliant data-retention policy. Read more here
According to this article by GamingTechLaw, Meta should have paid VAT for data acquired from Italian users when they sign up to the Meta-owned platforms. The position of the Italian Public Prosectur lays to the company’s profits gained by the usage of those data for profiled advertising. Experts say that the effects of this investigation...
Modern mobile devices have access to a wealth of data suitable for learning models, which is often privacy sensitive. This may preclude logging to the data center and training using conventional approaches. For this reason, here is proposed an alternative that leaves the training data distributed on the mobile devices, and learns a shared model...