Google hit with lawsuit over new AI data-scraping privacy policy
A week after Google updated its privacy policy to allow data scraping for AI training purposes, the company is now facing a class action lawsuit.
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Google is now facing legal action in a follow-up to its recent privacy policy update that accuses the tech giant of misusing large amounts of data, including data. copyrighted material in artificial intelligence (AI) training.
The lawsuit was filed on July 11 by eight people who claim to represent "millions of class members" - internet users and copyright holders - whose privacy and property rights were violated at in light of recent updates from Google regarding its privacy policy.
In its opening statement, the plaintiffs accuse Google of "secretly harvesting data" to create its AI products without consent.
“Google was recently discovered to be secretly stealing everything created and shared on the Internet by hundreds of millions of Americans.”
Changes to Google's privacy policy now allow it to take publicly available data to use for artificial intelligence (AI) training purposes.
The lawsuit points out that Google's decision not only violates rights, but gives it an "unfair advantage" over competitors who legally obtain or purchase data to train AI. Ryan Clarkson of Clarkson Law Firm, plaintiffs' attorney, said in a statement in the lawsuit that:
"Google needs to understand, once and for all: The internet doesn't belong to it, it doesn't own our creative works, it doesn't own the expressions of our personalities, the photos of our families and children, or whatever. it's else just because we share it online.”
The plaintiffs argued that "publicly available" does not and never has implied that it is "free to use for any purpose".
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A week after Google updated its privacy policy to allow data scraping for AI training purposes, the company is now facing a class action lawsuit.
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Join us on social networks
Google is now facing legal action in a follow-up to its recent privacy policy update that accuses the tech giant of misusing large amounts of data, including data. copyrighted material in artificial intelligence (AI) training.
The lawsuit was filed on July 11 by eight people who claim to represent "millions of class members" - internet users and copyright holders - whose privacy and property rights were violated at in light of recent updates from Google regarding its privacy policy.
In its opening statement, the plaintiffs accuse Google of "secretly harvesting data" to create its AI products without consent.
“Google was recently discovered to be secretly stealing everything created and shared on the Internet by hundreds of millions of Americans.”
Changes to Google's privacy policy now allow it to take publicly available data to use for artificial intelligence (AI) training purposes.
The lawsuit points out that Google's decision not only violates rights, but gives it an "unfair advantage" over competitors who legally obtain or purchase data to train AI. Ryan Clarkson of Clarkson Law Firm, plaintiffs' attorney, said in a statement in the lawsuit that:
"Google needs to understand, once and for all: The internet doesn't belong to it, it doesn't own our creative works, it doesn't own the expressions of our personalities, the photos of our families and children, or whatever. it's else just because we share it online.”
The plaintiffs argued that "publicly available" does not and never has implied that it is "free to use for any purpose".
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