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AI chatbot ChatGPT faces growing scrutiny in Europe
6Apr By adminNo Comments
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AI chatbot ChatGPT faces growing scrutiny in Europe

[ad_1] France's data regulator said on Wednesday it had received two complaints about the AI program ChatGPT, as European authorities deepened their scrutiny of the chatbot days after Italy banned it.ChatGPT, created by US firm OpenAI, has provided a global hit by demonstrating an ability to generate essays, poems and conversations from the briefest of prompts -- as well as passing tough exams. But Italian regulators said last Friday that the firm had no legal basis to engage in massive data collection and questioned the way it was handling the information it had gathered. European authorities including those of France, Ireland and Germany have since approached their Italian counterpart to try to establish a common position on ChatGPT.And the concerns are not limited to Europe -- on Tue...
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Should the US ban TikTok? Can it? A cybersecurity expert explains the risks the app poses and the challenges to blocking it
26Mar By adminNo Comments
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Should the US ban TikTok? Can it? A cybersecurity expert explains the risks the app poses and the challenges to blocking it

[ad_1] TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 23, 2023, amid a chorus of calls from members of Congress for the federal government to ban the Chinese-owned video social media app and reports that the Biden administration is pushing for the company's sale.The federal government, along with many state and foreign governments and some companies, has banned TikTok on work-provided phones. This type of ban can be effective for protecting data related to government work. But a full ban of the app is another matter, which raises a number of questions: What data privacy risk does TikTok pose? What could the Chinese government do with data collected by the app? Is its content recommendation algorithm dangerous? And is it even possible to ban an ...
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Nearly Half of Firms Are Drafting Policies on ChatGPT Use
21Mar By adminNo Comments
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Nearly Half of Firms Are Drafting Policies on ChatGPT Use

[ad_1] Nearly half of human resource leaders polled by consulting firm Gartner said they're in the process of formulating guidance on employees' use of OpenAI's artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.What those policies will look like may end up varying widely. Some Wall Street firms, like Bank of America Corp. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., have banned the chatbot, while hedge fund giant Citadel has embraced it. At the same time, one-third of HR leaders surveyed by Gartner said they aren't planning to issue any policies on employees' use of ChatGPT, even as experts raise concerns about copyright infringement and data privacy, and caution users against the chatbot's tendency to, at times, simply make stuff up. Already, over 40% of professionals polled by Fishbowl, a social platform own...
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Meta fined 390M euros in latest European privacy crackdown
5Jan By adminNo Comments
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Meta fined 390M euros in latest European privacy crackdown

[ad_1] European Union regulators on Wednesday hit Facebook parent Meta with hundreds of millions in fines for privacy violations and banned the company from forcing users in the 27-nation bloc to agree to personalized ads based on their online activity. European Union regulators on Wednesday hit Facebook parent Meta with hundreds of millions in fines for privacy violations and banned the company from forcing users in the 27-nation bloc to agree to personalized ads based on their online activity. Ireland's Data Protection Commission imposed two fines totaling 390 million euros ($414 million) in its decision in two cases that could shake up Meta's business model of targeting users with ads based on what they do online. The company says it will appeal. A decision in a third case inv...
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Digital Data Protection Bill: Check top 6 principles
3Dec By adminNo Comments
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Digital Data Protection Bill: Check top 6 principles

[ad_1] Digital Personal Data Protection Bill frames out the rights and duties of the citizen on one hand and the Obligations to use collected data lawfully. The Digital Data Protection Bill, which the Central government is working on, is likely to be introduced in the upcoming Budget Session of 2023-24.The Bill is currently in its draft stage and has been placed in the public domain for consultation. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill is legislation that frames out the rights and duties of the citizen (Digital Nagrik) on one hand and the Obligations to use collected data lawfully of the Data Fiduciary on the other hand. The bill is based on the following principles around the Data Economy: The first principle is that the collection and usage of personal data by organisations mu...
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