Hi everyone, I hope you are doing well. In today’s newsletter, I discuss some of the emerging privacy issues associated with tools based on large language models — AI systems such as ChatGPT. Following the main discussion, you will find privacy-related resources and tips that might be helpful to you…

Hello all, I hope you are doing well. In today’s newsletter, I discuss the current “AI surge,” the intersections between AI and privacy, and challenges that will have to be faced in order to protect fundamental rights in the years to come. Following the main discussion, you will find privacy-related…

Dark patterns in privacy are a trending topic. There are various academic papers (including mine) dealing with the topic, the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) explicitly prohibit dark patterns, and fines punishing dark patterns continue to accumulate on both sides of the Atlantic…

Tracking and behavior advertising have been more closely regulated in the last few years, especially after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which brought, among other provisions, stricter requirements for user consent. What I argue in today’s newsletter is that there has been a series of legislative, regulatory, market, and…

Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite, one of the most popular video games ever, was fined $520 million by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and deploying deceptive design, also known as dark patterns, to push millions of players into making…

Have you heard about the Data Act? Data Governance Act? Digital Markets Act? Digital Services Act? AI Act? These are all upcoming legislations in the European Union, which will have a deep and long-lasting impact on how companies develop, structure, and position their products and services online. Consequently, our experience…

As a mother of 3 small kids, an entrepreneur, the author of The Privacy Whisperer newsletter and podcast, an immigrant with no family help, and currently finishing my Ph.D. in privacy law, being efficient with my time & choices is key. …

If you have been online in the last few days, you have certainly heard of ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed by OpenAI. As the company’s founder said, in less than one week, they went from zero to one million users. AI is fascinating, and it does not come…

On November 10th, 2022, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) fined Discord 800,000 euros for numerous GDPR infractions. …