PRG News Roundup, February 1, 2023
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…
PRG News Roundup, January 25, 2023
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…
PRG News Roundup, November 30, 2022
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…
PRG News Roundup, November 16, 2022
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…
PRG News Roundup, November 9, 2022
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…
PRG News Roundup, November 2, 2022
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…
PRG News Roundup, October 26, 2022
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…
PRG News Roundup, October 19, 2022
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…
PRG News Roundup, October 12, 2022
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…
PRG News Roundup, October 5, 2022
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…