The EU unveils proposed updates to GDPR, including simplifying cookie permission pop-ups, and plans to water down the AI Act, after US and tech company pressure
The EU folds under Big Tech's pressure. … After years of staring down the world's biggest tech companies and setting the bar …
Draft docs: the European Commission plans to simplify some of its privacy rules, including GDPR, to boost AI growth and slash red tape for businesses in Europe
BRUSSELS — European Union officials are ready to sacrifice some of their most prized privacy rules for the sake of AI …
A German court rules Meta's tracking pixels embedded in third-party websites and apps violate the EU's GDPR, ordering it to pay €5,000 to a German Facebook user
A German court has ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 ($5,900) to a German Facebook user who sued the platform …
Sources: Ireland's DPC will fine TikTok €500M+ before the end of April for illegally shipping European users' data to China, after a lengthy GDPR investigation
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The Irish Data Protection Commission fines LinkedIn €310M over using personal data for behavioral analysis and targeted ads under GDPR, after a 2018 complaint
Penalty relates to social media platform's processing of its members' data for targeted advertising
Meta rolls out “activity status” to Threads that shows a green dot next to a user's profile picture to show the user is online, if they have the feature enabled
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Chris Messina / @chris : What's up AIM buddies? — RE: https://www.threads.net/... X: @gateklons : And the GDPR legal basis for this disclosure is? Mark Gurman / @mark...
The Irish Data Protection Commission wraps up an investigation into a 2019 breach, fining Meta €91M for violating GDPR rules by storing passwords in plain text
#privacy #Facebook #HaveIBeenPwned #DataBreach #Instagram — https://9to5mac.com/... X: Brian O'Donovan / @brianod_news : Breaking: Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has b...
The Irish Data Protection Commission wraps up an investigation into a 2019 breach, fining Meta €91M for violating GDPR rules by storing passwords in plain text
The Irish Data Protection Commission found that the company violated several GDPR rules.
Ireland's DPC opens an investigation into Google's GDPR compliance over using the personal information of EU and EEA users for training foundation AI models
Google's lead privacy regulator in the European Union has opened an investigation into whether or not it has complied …
Meta plans to withhold future multimodal AI models in the EU due to what the company calls a lack of clarity from regulators, but keep offering text-only models
https://www.axios.com/... X: Andrew Curran / @andrewcurran_ : From this: - Llama 4 started training in June - Llama 4 will be fully multimodal, including audio - Llama 3 405b will still release in the...