According to the BBC, the UK’s data regulator has accused Snapchat’s My AI feature of posing a potential privacy risk to users, especially children. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has warned that the My AI feature could be shut down in the UK after a “preliminary investigation”.
Snapchat says it is “carefully reviewing,” the results of the interim investigation, the Snapchat App has 21 million users in the UK, many of whom are children, and the ICO says it is particularly concerned about the potential privacy risks for 13-17-year-olds.
The data regulator emphasized that its findings were not final and did not conclude that the company had breached any data protection laws. At this stage, the notice is a signal to Snap (Snapchat’s parent company) to ensure that My AI complies with data protection rules, which include the Design for Children Code.
The ICO said that if the final enforcement notice is adopted, Snap may not be able to offer My AI functionality to users in the UK until the company has carried out a full risk assessment.
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