Incidents gathered from public reporting around the world. Each one links to the articles it came from. None of it is a finding that anyone broke the law.
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251 incidents closest to “CCC IX Cloud” · matched on meaning · public reporting
Apple announced a plan to detect child sexual abuse material in iCloud in 2021, but paused and then killed the plan in December 2022. Child safety advocates, including Sarah Gardner, are now engaging with Apple to urge implementation of the technology. The letter expresses concern about the delay and the impact on survivors.
10 source articles · read the reporting →
Artificial intelligence company Prisma Labs is accused of violating Illinois' biometric privacy law by collecting facial geometry data from users of its Lensa app. A proposed class action was filed, but a California federal judge granted Prisma's motion to compel arbitration because users agreed to it during sign-up. The plaintiff alleges the app collected his facial data without consent.
8 source articles · read the reporting →
Stanford researchers reported that the LAION 5B training dataset contains potentially illegal content in the form of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). LAION, a non-profit organization that provides datasets for machine learning research, acknowledged the reports and temporarily took down the datasets to ensure they are safe before republishing. LAION is working with the Internet Watch Foundation and the Hamburg State Data Protection Commissioner to address the issue.
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Civitai, an AI image generation platform, was dropped by its cloud computing provider OctoML after an investigation by 404 Media found it was being used to generate images that could be categorized as child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The platform also faced scrutiny for nonconsensual deepfakes of celebrities and private citizens, primarily women. Civitai added new moderation filters in response, but OctoML terminated the business relationship.
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Two State University of New York professors, Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik, have accused Apple of copyright infringement in a proposed class action lawsuit. They allege that Apple used pirated materials, including a database called Books3 containing their works, to train its AI tool Apple Intelligence. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, claims Apple continues to use pirated books for training without compensating rightsholders.
8 source articles · read the reporting →
The AI system intercepted and recorded a customer's phone call and collected her personal and financial information without consent.
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The system recorded and transcribed customer service calls without consent, affecting the privacy of callers.
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The system recorded and analyzed patient phone calls without their consent.
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The system intercepted, recorded, and analyzed the communications of LegalShield customers without their consent.
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The system secretly recorded and analyzed customer service conversations of callers to Patagonia and Zumiez without consent.
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The AI generated fake identities and deepfake videos to trick victims into transferring cryptocurrency to fraudulent wallets.
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