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Spain's High Court on Monday upheld a temporary ban on Worldcoin's iris-scanning venture, the latest blow to a project that has sparked privacy concerns in several countries. The court said the "safeguarding of the public interest" must prevail, dismissing an appeal by Worldcoin's owners who asked for the ban to be lifted while it deliberates.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data…

France's privacy watchdog said on Tuesday that it slapped Amazon's French warehouse business with a 32 million euro fine (USD 35 million) for using an "excessively intrusive sytem" to monitor worker performance and activity. The French Data Protection Authority, also known by its acronym CNIL, said the system allowed managers at Amazon France Logistique to track employees so closely that it resulted in multiple breaches of the European Union's stringent privacy rules, called the General Data Protection Regulation. Elevate…

Japan's privacy watchdog said on Friday it has warned OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed startup behind the ChatGPT chatbot, not to collect sensitive data without people's permission.OpenAI should minimise the sensitive data it collects for machine learning, the Personal Information Protection Commission said in a statement, adding it may take further action if it has more concerns. Regulators around the world are scrambling to draw up rules governing the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI), which can create text…

As the race to develop more powerful artificial intelligence services like ChatGPT accelerates, some regulators are relying on old laws to control a technology that could upend the way societies and businesses operate.The European Union is at the forefront of drafting new AI rules that could set the global benchmark to address privacy and safety concerns that have arisen with the rapid advances in the generative AI technology behind OpenAI's ChatGPT. But it will take several years for the legislation to be enforced. "In…

Spain's data protection agency AEPD said on Thursday it was launching a preliminary investigation into potential data breaches by OpenAI's ChatGPT as global scrutiny of artificial intelligence (AI) systems intensifies.The body that unites Europe's national privacy watchdogs said earlier on Thursday it had set up a task force on ChatGPT, a potentially important first step toward a common policy on setting AI privacy rules. Spain's data protection agency AEPD said on Thursday it was launching a preliminary…