Snapchat's AI chatbot may pose privacy risk to children, say...

LONDON, Oct 6 -- Snapchat may have failed to properly assess privacy risks to children from its artificial intelligence chatbot, Britain's data watchdog said today, adding it would consider the company's response before making any final enforcement decision. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said if the US company fails to adequately address the regulator's concerns, "My AI", launched in April, could be banned in the UK. "The provisional findings of our investigation suggest a worrying failure by Snap to adequately identify and assess the privacy risks to children and other users before launching 'My AI'", Information Commissioner John Edwards said. The findings do not necessarily mean the instant messaging app used largely by younger people has breached British data protection laws or that the ICO will end up issuing an enforcement notice, the regulator said. Snap said it ...