Privacy News Round-Up #85 šŸŒ

ā€¢ DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next: The Department of Justice is reaffirming its demands for action to break up Googleā€™s search monopoly, calling for the sale of Chrome and potentially Android as well.

ā€¢ Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Canā€™t Opt Out: Amazon is killing its ā€œDo Not Send Voice Recordingsā€ privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant.

ā€¢ ChatGPT hit with privacy complaint over defamatory hallucinations: OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in Europe over its viral AI chatbotā€™s tendency to hallucinate false information ā€” and this one might prove tricky for regulators to ignore.

ā€¢ EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions for apps and connected devices: The European Union has sent Apple preliminary instructions on how it expects the iPhone maker to comply with interoperability provisions in the blocā€™s Digital Markets Act (DMA), its flagship market contestability reform.

ā€¢ Meta settles UK ā€˜right to object to ad-trackingā€™ lawsuit by agreeing not to track plaintiff: A human rights campaigner, Tanya Oā€™Carroll, has succeeded in forcing social media giant Meta not to use her data for targeted advertising. The agreement is contained in a settlement to an individual challenge she lodged against Metaā€™s tracking and profiling back in 2022.

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