Amnesty International head says AI innovation vs regulation is ‘false dichotomy’
The Secretary-General of Amnesty International, Anges Callamard, released a statement on Nov. 27 in response to three European Union member states pushing back on regulating artificial intelligence (AI) models. France, Germany and Italy reached an agreement that included not adopting ...
Italian regulators investigate online AI data scraping
The Italian Data Protection Authority, a local privacy regulator, announced the launch of a “fact-finding” investigation on Nov. 22, in which it will look into the practice of data gathering to train artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms.The investigation aims to verify the adoption of a ...
TikTok, Snapchat, OnlyFans and others to combat AI-generated child abuse content
A coalition of major social media platforms, artificial intelligence (AI) developers, governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have issued a joint statement pledging to combat abusive content generated by AI.On Oct. 30, the United Kingdom issued the policy statement, which inc ...
Italian central bank backs DeFi tokenization project with Polygon, Fireblocks
The Bank of Italy’s Milano Hub innovation center will provide support for a project developed by Cetif Advisory to research a security token ecosystem for institutional decentralized finance (DeFi). The project has no “commercialisation purpose” but will extend &ldqu ...
Italy’s central bank calls for framework to prevent stablecoin runs
Italy’s top banking authority has called for a “robust, risk-based” regulatory framework for stablecoins, which could help prevent a worst case scenario — a “run” on stablecoins. The central bank’s recently released “Markets, Infrastruct ...
Binance Delists Privacy Tokens on National Exchange Platforms in Four European Countries
The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange notified users in France, Italy, Poland, and Spain about the delisting of privacy tokens on national exchange trading platforms. A Binance spokesperson said the restrictions are imposed on 12 privacy tokens: Decred (DCR), Dash (DA ...
Italian Students Organize Bitcoin Training Seminars for Educational Institutions
A team of students from the Polytechnic University of Turin created the BitGeneration initiative, which will offer training workshops on displays in Italian educational institutions. These seminars are aimed at third, fourth and fifth year students of universities and consist of ten meetings lasting ...