The AI Debate: Google's Guidelines, Meta's GDPR Dispute, Microsoft's Recall Backlash

The article covers three related topics: Google urging responsible integration of generative AI in third-party Android apps to avoid generating restricted or harmful content and to include reporting and testing mechanisms; regulatory pushback in Europe against Meta’s plan to use public posts/photos and other data to train AI models (noyb complaints and Datatilsynet concerns about GDPR/consent); and significant privacy/security concerns with Microsoft’s Recall feature—researchers demonstrated tools (TotalRecall) and techniques that can access an unencrypted local SQLite database of parsed screenshots (and screenshots saved to disk), with methods now available to bypass the need for administrator privileges and enable exfiltration of sensitive information.