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The Privacy Protection Authority Releases Notice Regarding Cyber-attack at ‘Mayanei Hayeshua’ Medical Center

The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority has published guidelines regarding the use of personal medical information of patients that could be misused online due to the data breach incident at the ‘Mayanei Hayeshua’ Medical Center in Israel. The Authority has warned that indications suggest that the cyber-attack may have resulted in theft of information and that any use of this personal ...

Facebook Will Seek User Consent to Process Personal Data for Targeted Ads

Meta (formerly Facebook) announced that in the coming months, it will seek the consent of users in the European Economic Area and Switzerland to the use of their personal information for targeted advertising. Meta’s announcement follows judicial and regulatory decisions in Europe, which invalidated the company’s practice of relying on “legitimate interest” as the legal basis to justify processing personal ...

U.S. Federal Court Denies Copyright Protection for Image Created by Artificial Intelligence

A Federal District Court in the United States dismissed Stephen Thaler’s appeal against the U.S. Copyright Office denial of Thaler’s application to register the copyright on an image generated by Thaler’s Artificial Intelligence software, known as the “Creativity Machine.” The court held that a work generated by artificial intelligence without a human author does not qualify for copyright protection.

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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Finalizes Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules requiring that public companies disclose material cybersecurity incidents. The rules also require periodic disclosure of a public company’s cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and governance in annual reports.

According to the rules, new forms will require public companies to disclose any cybersecurity incident they determine to be material. The forms also seek ...

Google and OpenAI Were Hit with Lawsuits on the Use of AI

American Comedian Sarah Silverman and writers Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey are jointly suing OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, in a federal court in California. They assert that OpenAI, a leading artificial intelligence research organization, infringed copyrights when it used copyrighted works to train its advanced language model, GPT. The lawsuit seeks class action certification.

According to the plaintiffs, OpenAI ...

India Enacts a New Privacy Protection Act

After six years of extensive deliberations, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act in India was approved into law by the President of India. The law offers an approach distinguishable from the GDPR and imposes notable obligations on “data fiduciaries”, which are comparable to data controllers. These responsibilities include a duty to issue privacy notices in English and 22 additional languages, ...

U.S. Will Impose Restrictions on Investments in Sensitive Technologies in China

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, issued a presidential order directing the departments of Treasury and Commerce to formulate regulations that will impose limitations on American investments in technology companies and ventures in China, specifically those related to artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and semiconductors.

According to officials, the primary objective of Biden’s executive order is not to curtail ...

Artificial Intelligence Companies will Implement Safeguards in AI tools

Seven leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies based in the United States have agreed to voluntarily implement safeguards in AI development. The companies are Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Meta (formerly Facebook), Inflection, Microsoft, and OpenAI. Their announcement came after a meeting with President Biden at the White House, where the companies pledged to implement new measures for safety, security, and trust in ...

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