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Events: JSD Fellows Stav Zeitouni and Kat Geddes are leading an upper-level reading group called “Propertizing Intangibles in the Digital Age.” The group intends to explore the changes that laws dealing with intangibles have gone through in the digital age, focusing in particular on copyright.…

The use and collection of voice data in general has been in the spotlight in part due to new Microsoft voice-cloning software called VALL-E . Privacy advocates have voiced worries that the VALL-E, Apple’s Siri, and Amazon’s Alexa could be utilized in ways that do not involve the consent of recorded individuals.…

News The European Union Court of Justice invalidated a provision of the EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive that guaranteed access to information on the “real owners” of a company. Some commentators criticized the decision as setting back efforts to fight corruption. The San Francisco Police Department proposed expanding use of robots capable of using deadly force to respond to incidents.…

News Google agreed to pay $392 million to 40 states — the largest multi-state privacy settlement in U.S. history — in response to allegations that it broke consumer protection laws by tracking individuals through their devices after location tracking had been turned off.…

News A class action lawsuit was filed against Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI alleging large-scale copyright violations in the companies’ GitHub Copilot AI-powered coding assistant. Australia’s Labor Party introduced a privacy bill including significantly increased penalties for data breaches and an amendment to the Privacy Act extending jurisdiction to foreign organizations doing business in Australia.…

News FTC brought an action agaisnt Chegg, the education technology provider.  Responding to their allegedly lax data security practices, the FTC proposed requiring the company to bolster its data security and limiting the data that the company can collect and retain, among a number of other user protections. …

News Uber is rolling out a new advertising branch, which will show riders live ads during their ride using data that Uber collects from their phones. A father and son shot at a woman sitting in her car after their Ring camera notified them of someone at their front door.…

Events On November 2nd, NYU’s Law will be hosting a panel called “FemTech and Privacy: Striking the Balance in a Post-Dobbs Reality.” The event will take place in the Greenberg Auditorium at 5:00 pm, and will be moderated by Professor Melissa Murray.…

On September 28, the EU Commission published a Proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Liability Directive (AILD, or AI Liability Directive). The purpose of the Directive is to “improve the functioning of the internal market by laying down uniform rules for certain aspects of non-contractual civil liability for damage caused with the involvement of AI systems.” …

Yesterday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released its Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, which aims to embed protections throughout the AI design pipeline. The blueprint is centered on five principles, namely, rights to safe and effective systems; algorithmic discrimination protection; data privacy; notice and explanation; and human alternatives, consideration, and fallback.…