International Association of Privacy Professionals

EDPB discusses draft anonymization, AI web scraping guidelines

The European Data Protection Board's Gwendal Le Grand joined an IAPP LinkedIn Live to unpack the board's draft anonymization ...

Bonita deputy releases Burmese python book on his hunting adventures

Photographer and writer Bob Bramblet is the past president of the Florida Outdoors Writers Association, and he wrote a book ...
Computerworld

Google’s anti-search-scraping lawsuit dismissed

A court has dismissed Google’s case against SerpApi over that company’s scraping of search results to train AI models. The US District Court for the Northern District of California found that there ...
techtimes

GDPR Applies to AI Training Data: EU Ends Web Scraping Free Pass for Every Lab

Europe's top privacy body resolved one of the most contested legal questions in artificial intelligence on Tuesday, ruling that GDPR applies in full whenever web scraping involves EU residents' ...

Project Panama: How Anthropic secretly destroyed millions of books to train its AI

Recently unsealed court documents reveal how Anthropic secretly bought, destroyed and scanned books to train its AI chatbot, Claude. View on euronews ...
The Next Web

AI firms are buying up old books because they are the last slop-free data left

The pitch from data broker ISBNdb is blunt: the world’s best AI training data is sitting on a shelf. The catch is that getting at it means slicing the spine off millions of books, then never admitting ...
The Guardian

Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training

Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’ A group of major publishers have filed a lawsuit against Google, ...
The New York Times

Find Your Next Book

The editors of The New York Times Book Review bring you our latest fiction reviews, our latest nonfiction reviews, the 50 best thrillers of the 21st century, engrossing historical fiction, ...
HackerNoon

The Lazy Programmer’s Guide to AI-Assisted Development

AI coding agents can accelerate development, but they may also generate bloated code and technical debt. Learn where they ...
The New York Times

Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed

As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul. Credit...Timo Lenzen Supported by By Kate Conger ...

Millions of books are reportedly being destroyed — here’s what Anthropic has to say

AI models are being trained on data obtained from classic literature—Anthropic’s reported destruction of books and why ...
PC Magazine

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