UK regulator says Snap’s AI chatbot may put kids’ privacy at risk

A UK regulator has raised concerns that Snap’s AI chatbot may be putting the privacy of kids at risk. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the country’s privacy watchdog, issued a preliminary enforcement notice against the company over a “potential failure to properly assess the privacy risks posed by its generative AI chatbot ‘My AI’.”

Information Commissioner John Edwards said the ICO’s provisional findings from its investigation indicated a “worrying failure by Snap to adequately identify and assess the privacy risks …

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