Canadian officials claim OpenAI violated federal and provincial privacy laws By Ian Carlos Campbell May 6, 2026 5:24 pm EST Philippe Dufresne, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has found OpenAI was "not compliant with" Canadian federal and provincial privacy laws in the training of its AI models. …
… "A patchwork of conflicting state laws would undermine American innovation and our ability to lead in the global AI race." In terms of child privacy protections, the framework ask for Congress to require companies to provide tools like "screen time, content exposure and account controls" while also… …
… COPPA 2.0 is a modernized take on the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, attempting to address recent changes in common online activities, like targeted advertising, that could prove harmful to minors. Lawmakers have made several attempts to get this bipartisan bill through. …
UK Meta employee reportedly downloaded 30,000 private photos from Facebook users The Metropolitan police are currently handling the investigation into the privacy violation. …
… The security flaw was one way law enforcement agencies like the FBI could circumvent Apple's strict stance towards user privacy, the Electronic Frontier Foundation writes , particularly since the company has required a court order to share notification data since 2023. …
… Netflix takes our members' privacy seriously and complies with privacy and data‑protection laws everywhere we operate. …
California lawmakers are working on a bill to preserve access to online games By Ian Carlos Campbell May 15, 2026 3:48 pm EST A bill that could require game publishers to offer a way to access online games after they are no longer actively supported is making its way to a floor vote in the Californ… …
… The company has suspended the Model Capability Initiative, not because of workers' understandable displeasure around being almost perpetually monitored or for potentially breaking privacy laws , but because it caused an internal data leak. …
… "Their lives have been shattered by the devastating loss of privacy, dignity, and personal safety that the production and dissemination of this CSAM have caused," lawyers for the teens write in the complaint, which was provided to Engadget. …
… Meta paid out billions of dollars to settle biometric privacy lawsuits in Illinois and Texas and another $5 billion to the FTC for a separate privacy case partially tied to facial recognition software. …