Citing “alleged serious breaches” of data protection laws, UK's ICO notifies Clearview AI of its provisional intention to fine the company £17M+
Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI is facing a potential fine in the UK. Source: ICO .
UK government says it will move away from EU's GDPR after Brexit, including possibly ending cookie consent popups, and names John Edwards as preferred ICO head
Alex Hern / The Guardian : Source: GOV.UK .
UK ICO publishes three-year investigation into Cambridge Analytica, finding no evidence that CA or associate company SCL misused data to influence Brexit vote
and even within the company, staff worried that Nix & Co. were exaggerating CA's “impact and influence.” This jibes with reporting by @nytimes, @BuzzFeed, and others in 2017. Benedict Evans / @benedic...
Overview of US data on Paycheck Protection Program loans received by 40+ blockchain firms, led by ConsenSys, which allegedly received $5M-$10M in April
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk : Tweets: @stacyherbert , @bitcoinmemehub , and @splitcapital Tweets: Stacy Herbert / @stacyherbert : The crypto companies who have received more than $1 million from US taxpa...
UK's regulator ICO to fine Marriott ~$123M over GDPR violations related to the Starwood Hotels breach, disclosed in 2018, that affected 380M+ guests
The intent to fine Marriott comes a day after the ICO announced a $230 million GDPR fine against British Airways.
TaTaTu, after raising $575M from royals and celebs in a private 2018 ICO for a blockchain-based Netflix-like service, now says it is not a blockchain business
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UK Parliament says it hopes to publish the internal Facebook documents seized this weekend “within the next week”, after fully reviewing them
The UK's Parliament said on Tuesday that it hopes to publish documents relating to Facebook's business practices “within the next week.” Tweets: @profcarroll . Thanks: @katiecollins Tweets: David Carr...
Sources: Telegram contacts investors for second pre-ICO sale, amount still being determined but estimated to bring total raised to $1.6B+ before public ICO
> “The first presale was rumored to be oversubscribed, and early investors are reportedly flipping their shares and making 2x returns on the secondary market.” @mikeisaac : ahhh, ICO's “they may not b...
SEC's new cyber unit dedicated to ICOs files its first charges over a scam by PlexCoin, which reportedly raised $15M and promised 13-fold profit within a month
and soon Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : SEC files its first action against dubious ‘initial coin offering’ PYMNTS.com : SEC Puts The Hammer Down On ICO Scam Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica : Feds shut do...
Class action suit filed against Tezos founders alleges they sold unregistered securities at ICO, weeks after another suit alleged violation of US securities law
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