News

The California Privacy Protection Agency issues a bulletin advising businesses to implement strong data minimization principles, including when processing consumer requests under the CCPA itself. [April 2]

Google settles a class action lawsuit alleging it illegally stored data about users’ “incognito” browsing by agreeing to destroy billions of records and alter its tracking policies moving forward. [April 1]

OpenAI announces — but does not release — a new “Voice Engine” model which can recreate a person’s voice based on only 15 seconds of audio. [March 29]

OMB announces new guidance for federal agencies using AI, requiring agencies that cannot implement certain mandatory evaluation and monitoring safeguards by December 2024 to cease using AI systems until they can comply.

The European Court of Justice rejects a request from Amazon to temporarily suspend the application of the Digital Services Act while the company litigates whether or not it is a “very large online platform” subject to the Act’s heightened requirements. [March 27]

The Department of Justice and 16 states sue Apple for restricting competition by, among other things, artificially constraining messaging features between iPhones and Android devices and preventing third party developers from competing with Apple’s tap-to-pay digital wallet feature. [March 21]

(Compiled by Student Fellow Micah Musser)