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- Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers [wired.com]
"The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is proposing a rule that would allow regulators to police data brokers under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), a landmark privacy law" enacted more than 50 years ago.
"Under the proposal, data brokers would be limited in their ability to sell certain sensitive personal information, including financial data and credit scores, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and addresses. The CFPB says that closing the loopholes allowing data brokers to trade in this data with little to no oversight will benefit vulnerable people and the US as a whole."
- Landlords Are Using AI To Raise Rents — and Cities Are Starting To Push Back [themarkup.org]
"Many landlords now use a single company’s software — which uses an algorithm based on proprietary lease information — to help set rent prices," Wendy Fry reports. "Federal prosecutors say the practice amounts to 'an unlawful information-sharing scheme,' and some lawmakers throughout California are moving to curb it."
- PSA: You Shouldn't Upload Your Medical Images to AI Chatbots [techcrunch.com]
A quick reminder from TechCrunch's security editor: "Think twice before you upload your private medical data to an AI chatbot... just because you can doesn’t mean you should."
"People have found their own private medical records in AI training datasets — and that means anybody else can, including healthcare providers, potential future employers, or government agencies. And, most consumer apps aren’t covered under the U.S. healthcare privacy law HIPAA, offering no protections for your uploaded data."
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