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California’s Privacy Protection Agency has commenced its first public enforcement action since obtaining such powers in 2023, fining Honda $632,500 for allegedly violating its customers’ privacy rights. The state alleged that Honda required over 100 customers to provide overly-revealing personal information, made it difficult for consumers to opt out of cookies, and failed to produce contracts describing how it shares personal information it collects with advertisers. As part of the settlement, Honda agreed to implement a more simple privacy process for consumers.
Elon Musk’s DOGE has begun employing an AI-assisted chatbot named GSAi at the General Services Administration (GSA) in order to continue its efforts to automate tasks previously performed by GSA employees. GSAi currently covers general tasks, similarly to everyday chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude, and the GSA eventually aims to employ the chatbot to analyze contract and procurement data.
A district court in New York ruled that a class action against Springer Nature, the publisher of Scientific American, survived a motion to dismiss. The publisher is accused of violating the Video Privacy Protection Act by sharing, without consent, the confidential personal information of its users with Meta through a tracking pixel.
(Compiled by Student Fellow Shreyas Iyer)