This Week in Privacy: Stalled Law, Meta's AI U-Turn, and Snap Appeasement
This edition of the Privacy Corner Newsletter dives into three key privacy headlines:
- Vermont's ambitious privacy bill, H.121, gets vetoed due to concerns about its impact on businesses. The bill included strong consumer rights and data minimization requirements.
- Meta delays its plan to train AI models on user posts following intervention from the Irish DPC. Privacy group noyb claims a "preliminary win" due to their complaints.
- The UK ICO reveals why it dropped an enforcement notice against Snap. The social media company took ten steps to address data protection risks associated with its My AI chatbot feature.