| By Josie Koehler | The European Union Council approved a digital identity initiative to create an EU Digital Identity Wallet (EDIW) enabling identity verification and document sharing via smartphones.
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| By Loc Le | The EU opened an investigation into TikTok, the social media platform owned by Chinese internet technology company, ByteDance, for potentially breaching the Digital Services Act.
TikTok is taking action to promote the app’s trust and credibility amidst US and EU election year scrutiny of disinformation and data privacy on social media.
| By Loc Le | President Biden signed an executive order on October 30th, creating new standards for AI safety, security, and privacy.
| By Eliana Pisons | Police worldwide are increasingly relying on AI to enhance security. However, challenges remain in improving AI accuracy while ensuring privacy protections.
| By Loc Le | Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his team’s latest AI tech innovations that enable new capabilities for users — but also raise questions and concerns about privacy and transparency.
| By Xuan Zhong | Zoom’s latest terms of service adds a new clause about users’ personal information. Although Zoom has repeatedly emphasized that users can choose not to share data with Zoom while using this application, this provision has been criticized by many users as evidence that Zoom will use users’ private data to train its AI system. It also raises concerns about users’ inability to assure themselves that their personal data is not being misappropriated.