Privacy News Round-Up #60
- US, Britain, EU to sign first international AI treaty: The first legally binding international AI treaty will be open for signing by the countries that negotiated it, including European Union members, the United States and Britain, the Council of Europe human rights organisation said.
- Clearview AI hit with its largest GDPR fine yet as Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable: Clearview AI, the U.S.-based facial recognition startup that built a searchable database of 30 billion images populated by scraping the internet for peopleās selfies without their consent, has been hit with its largest privacy fine yet in Europe.
- Irelandās privacy watchdog ends legal fight with X over data use for AI after it agrees to permanent limits: The end of court proceedings comes after it said the company had agreed to permanently abide by an undertaking made last month in front of an Irish High Court judge.
- Telegram quietly enables users to report private chats to moderators after founderās arrest: Telegram has quietly updated its policy to allow users to report private chats to its moderators following the arrest of founder Pavel Durov in France last month over ācrimes committed by third partiesā on the platform.
- The āworldās most private VPNā just launched in beta for free: NymVPN achieves privacy in a number of ways, including independent multi-hop routing of all connections, decentralized blockchain technology, anonymous payments, open-source code, among other things. Test it out now!