If ChatGPT Had Written This Article, The Prompt Would Have Been: ‘Write Me A Story About All The Recent Privacy News (Because I Need A Nap)’

There’s been such a deluge of data privacy-related news over the past few weeks, I hardly know what to focus on in this newsletter.

Congress debated AI regulations, Montana banned TikTok for everyone (not just on government devices), and Meta got fined more than $1 billion in Europe over a GDPR violation.

Oh, and it was GDPR’s birthday on Thursday. The law went into effect on May 25, 2018. Do you remember where you were? I do. (I’m a weirdo, I know, but it’s sort of my version of “Where were you when JFK was shot?”)

I was in my mother’s kitchen in New Jersey working on…