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.
The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project recently published an article by UC Hastings law professor Veena Dubal about the algorithmic gamification of work for gig workers; in this article, Dubal argues that companies’ algorithmic systems risk “undermining the possibility of economic stability and mobility through work by transforming the basic terms of how workers are paid.”
The European Court of Justice recently ruled that the right to access information under Article 15 of the GDPR requires that individuals whose data has been shared to certain recipients must be provided with the “actual identity of those recipients, unless it is impossible to identify those recipients or the controller demonstrates that the data subject’s requests for access are manifestly unfounded or excessive.” Because the ruling stipulates that providing general categories of recipients in response to a data request, rather than the identities of those recipients, is insufficient except in “exceptional cases,” European legal practitioners are now advising companies to “review their internal processes and their templates for responding to access requests so as to avoid fines and damages actions for failure to provide access.”
U.S. fast-food restaurant chain Chick-Fil-A was hit with a new privacy class-action lawsuit last week that alleges it shared personally identifiable information to Meta in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA).
The New York Police Department recently filmed concertgoers leaving a Drake concert in a manner that the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project called “highly concerning;” the NYPD said in a statement that this filming was intended purely for a future social media post on local events.
(Compiled by Student Fellow Cooper Aspegren)