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  • Italy’s Privacy Watchdog Bans ChatGPT For Data Mismanagement

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    by Mujtaba Hussain

    SRINAGAR: The Italian Government on Friday banned Chat GPT, citing the reason that it is involved in the wrong handling of the data of its users. It is the first time that the western country has put a temporary ban on chat GPT over privacy concerns.

    ChatGPT has been caught in the crisscross over data privacy concerns, job safety, and information legitimacy. Serial technologists also demanded to regulate the content moderation and the use of ChatGPT for minors. Amidst the worldwide growing popularity of ChatGPT, there are growing concerns over data privacy, and unregulated developments in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

    The Italian Data Protection Authority accused the maker of chatGPT, called “openAI”, of mishandling the data of its users. Besides this, the government-associated regulatory body said that the company has not put any age restriction on the usage of ChatGPT. It also proposed that openAI has no legal basis to use the data of its users to train the AI model.

    The regulatory body alleged that ChatGPT has inappropriately collected and stored the data of users. It demanded that the company should compile the data of users according to the privacy laws of the country.

    The privacy watchdog clarified that the ban will continue until the chatGPT rectify its policy and comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

    Earlier, the leading investment bank JP Morgan & Co, and Verizon Communications, and other multinationals also blocked the access of chatGPT from their networks because of the potential for losing ownership of proprietary data.

    Just two weeks after the release of the most advanced AI tool GPT-4, a letter signed by the tech prodigies of the world including Steve Wozniak, Elon Musk, and other Artificial Intelligence experts and industry specialists, called up on to stop the training of the AI systems, more powerful than the recent GPT-4, for a period of six months, mentioning the deep risks to humanity and society.

    Similar demands are being made in USA and Europe to regulate the self-generative AI tools for the concerns of data processing, and unregulated developments in AI.

    The wave of attention that the chatGPT created has intrigued the race for the development of AI tools. Companies like Open AI, Google, Microsoft, and Baidu are at the forefront of this new age revolution. Although chatbots like chatGPT are able to do tasks from writing homework to writing complex code, presenting cooking recipes to generating proposal ideas, the looming accusations of inefficient data handling and the uncontrolled development of generative AI advocated by the tech-savvy Twitter chief Elon musk have created a sense of discomfort among masses.

    Technologists also advocated to scrutinize the development of AI models more powerful than GPT-4. Despite the collective call of certain high profile technologists, entrepreneurs, and AI experts to regulate the development of AI models, there are still grave concerns about the data privacy, uncertain future developments, and whether these AI models will outperform humans and make them obsolete.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Italy’s FM meets with Egyptian officials on migration, Libya

    Italy’s FM meets with Egyptian officials on migration, Libya

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    Cairo: Italy’s chief diplomat held talks Sunday with Egyptian and Arab League officials in Cairo that focused on regional security and the conflict in neighboring Libya, as well as sensitive bilateral issues.

    Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said he raised with Egypt’s president the case of Giulio Regeni, an Italian graduate student who was kidnapped, tortured, and killed in Cairo in 2016, and that of Patrick George Zaki, an Egyptian activist studying in Bologna who had been detained for nearly two years.

    “I asked for and received assurances for strong cooperation on the Regeni and Zaki cases,” Tajani wrote on Twitter. Later in the day, he told a joint news conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry that Cairo “is ready to remove roadblocks” to resolve both cases. He did not offer further details.

    Tajani said his meeting with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi also covered energy security and economic cooperation in the Mediterranean, but focused “above all” on political instability in Libya and the efforts to stop “irregular immigration” from that country.

    The Italian foreign minister also met with Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit.

    The Regeni case roiled Cairo’s relations with Rome, with Regeni’s family and Italian authorities accusing Egyptian security forces of torturing and killing him. Egypt’s security services have denied any involvement in Regeni’s abduction or death.

    Regeni, 28, was a Cambridge University doctoral student researching labor movements in Egypt when he was abducted on Jan. 25, 2016. His body was found along a roadside several days later bearing marks of extensive torture, of the kind that activists and rights groups say is widespread within Egyptian detention facilities.

    Zaki, meanwhile, was released in December 2021 pending his trial on charges of spreading false news about Egypt, both domestically and abroad and was unable to travel since his release.

    Zaki’s detention and trial became front page news in Italy and sparked a wave of student protests there. For many Italians, his detention was reminiscent of Regeni’s death.

    Tajani said his trip to Egypt and before that Tunisia, and that of Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni to Algeria were part of the Italy’s efforts to boost its energy ties in the region and most importantly to stem the flow of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.

    Egypt, which hosts more than 6 million migrants, has touted for years its efforts to prevent migrant boats departing from its shores. But in 2022 Egyptian migrants were among the top nationalities arriving to European shores mainly by traveling first through neighboring Libya before taking perilous sea voyages.

    Libya has become a hub for African and Middle Eastern migrants seeking to travel to Europe, with Italy receiving tens of thousands every year. Rome has struck deals with the authorities in the Libyan capital of Tripoli in recent years to try to prevent the flow of migrants.

    Libya has been mired in chaos since a NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. The country is now split between two rival administrations claiming legitimacy. Egypt supports forces based in Libya’s east while Italy has backed the administration based in Tripoli.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )