Social media platform X faces the prospect of more legal scrutiny in Europe over its decision to feed customer data into its Grok artificial intelligence system after it agreed Thursday to suspend harvesting tweets as training data. NOYB said the company it is still likely violating privacy law.
The Irish data regulator sued social media platform X, accusing the service of wrongfully harvesting users' personal data for its artificial intelligence model Grok. During a hearing on Tuesday, regulators told the High Court of Ireland that X violated GDPR rules.
The British data regulator reprimanded the U.K.'s Electoral Commission for its failure to prevent a 2021 hack attack that resulted in the exposure of millions of voter records. Hackers breached the Electoral Commission's networks after exploiting the ProxyShell vulnerability.
Social media giant Meta will delay plans to train artificial intelligence with data harvested from European Instagram and Facebook users weeks after a rights group lodged a complaint against the company with 11 European data regulators. A Meta spokesperson said the delay is temporary.
Meta's plan to train artificial intelligence with data generated by Facebook and Instagram users faces friction in Europe after a rights group alleged it violates continental privacy law. Austrian privacy organization NOYB said it lodged complaints against Meta with 11 European data regulators.
The European Commission is appealing a March decision by a continental data regulator that found the commission's use of Microsoft Office apps violated Regulation (EU) 2018/1725. A commission spokesperson said the EDPS decision would undermine its "mobile and integrated IT services."
Social media giant Meta's attempt to navigate European data protection rules by offering a fee-based opt-out from behavioral advertising came under fire Wednesday by a trading bloc agency that said freedom from personalized marketing should typically be free.
The European Commission will scrutinize Meta's pivot to a subscription model in response to a string of rulings from data protection boards limiting the social media giant's ability to legally collect user data. Europe announced a slew of investigations into American big-tech companies.
After suffering a data breach, organizations that work closely with regulators and cybersecurity officials will be treated with greater leniency if their case results in penalties and a fine, says new guidance on data protection fines published by the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office.
Facebook's attempt to navigate European privacy regulations by giving users a fee-based opt-out from behavioral advertising triggered backlash from more than a dozen European politicians who accused the social media giant of treating human rights as a commodity.
A defunct U.K. Home Office pilot project that tracked the whereabouts of 600 migrants violated British privacy law, the British data regulator said early Friday in London, giving the agency a deadline of nearly a month to bring its data processing requirements under compliance.
Britain's privacy watchdog ordered Serco Leisure, which operates nearly 40 leisure facilities, to cease using facial recognition and fingerprint scanning for clocking employees in and out, saying the company failed to demonstrate such technology was "necessary or proportionate."
Uber must pay a fine of 10 million euros to the Dutch data protection authority after the agency found the ride-hailing app maker had not been transparent about how long it kept driver data and which employees outside of Europe had access to the data.
The Italian data protection regulator fined a midsize northern city 50,000 euros for deploying a pilot artificial intelligence public safety project financed by the European Union. Trento was a partner in three pilots that planned to use AI to detect threats.
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