Italy's competition watchdog fines Apple €98.6M, saying the company's ATT rules are “disproportionate” and “harmful” to app developers and advertisers
The App Tracking Transparency rules are “disproportionate,” and “harmful” to app developers and advertisers. Ultimately, it found that Apple abused its dominant position in the EU...
A joint investigation by Canadian privacy authorities finds TikTok collected sensitive personal data from hundreds of thousands of Canadian children under 13
Social media platform removing 500,000 Canadian kids from its platform each year — The immensely popular social media app TikTok …
An EU confidential decision, now public, shows the EU pressed Meta to create a separate version of Facebook Marketplace or let users access rival services
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A US judge blocks parts of California's SB 976, a law to protect kids from social media, over companies' 1A rights, but okays banning addictive feeds for minors
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Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and 100+ other companies signed the EU's AI Pact for “voluntary pledges” before the AI Act; Apple and Meta did not sign
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Ireland's DPC launches High Court proceedings against X over concerns about how the company processes EU and EEA user data to train AI systems, including Grok
The Data Protection Commission has launched High Court proceedings against Twitter International Unlimited Company over concerns …
Oracle agrees to pay $115M to settle a lawsuit accusing it of invading people's privacy by collecting their personal information and selling it to third parties
Oracle (ORCL.N) agreed to pay $115 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the database software and cloud computing company …
Brazil's data regulator suspends the validity of Meta's privacy policy for using personal data to train AI models in the country and sets a daily ~$8,800 fine
Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) has decided to suspend with immediate effect the validity of Meta's (META.O) …
Filing: Clearview AI proposes settling a class action lawsuit by collectively giving a 23% stake, worth ~$52M, to Americans whose faces are in its database
https://arstechnica.com/... h/t @Nonya_Bidniss Evan Greer / @evangreer@mastodon.online : I spoke with the NYT about why giving people harmed a stake in Clearview AI is not a solut...
Filing: Clearview AI proposes settling a class action lawsuit by collectively giving a 23% stake, worth ~$52M, to Americans whose faces are in its database
The facial recognition start-up doesn't have the funds to settle a class-action lawsuit, so lawyers are proposing equity for those whose faces were scraped from the internet.
Q&A with FTC Privacy and Identity Protection executive Ben Wiseman on proposed commercial surveillance rules, connected car industry's data practices, and more
Suzanne Smalley / The Record : X: @montezumachavez , @mario_gug , @saalevine , and @therecord_media X: Luis Montezuma / @montezumachavez : RFN: What lessons have you learned from ...
The UK CMA raises concerns after uncovering an “interconnected web” of 90+ AI deals and investments involving Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Nvidia
As the Artificial Intelligence (AI) race heats up primarily due … Finextra : CMA outlines competition concerns with AI Foundation Models GOV.UK : CMA outlines growing concerns in m...
Portugal's data regulator orders Worldcoin to stop collecting biometric data for 90 days, after receiving complaints about unauthorized collection from minors
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EU countries strike a deal on the AI Act, after announcing pro-innovation measures and an AI Office; the bill still needs the EU Parliament's formal approval
The EU Parliament approves the Data Act, which has a kill switch clause for automated data-sharing agreements; the legislation now needs EU Council approval
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The Office of Management and Budget releases draft rules for US federal agencies to assess AI in health care, law enforcement, and housing for potential harms
Draft rules from the White House would require federal agencies to assess AI systems currently in use in law enforcement …
The CJEU rules that Germany's Federal Cartel Office didn't overstep when ordering Meta to overhaul its ad business in 2019; Meta is “evaluating” the ruling
This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of Article 4 … Wall Street Journal : Meta's Facebook Faces Fresh Threat to Sending Personalized Ads in EU Javier E...
For Europeans, CJEU's Meta ruling could potentially close this chapter on surveillance capitalism, which relies on denying users a free choice over its tracking
Mark your calendar European friends: July 4th could soon be celebrated as independence-from-Meta's-surveillance- capitalism-day …
The CJEU rules that Germany's Federal Cartel Office didn't overstep by demanding Meta overhaul its ad business in 2019; Meta says it is “evaluating” the ruling
Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook lost its European Union court fight over a German antitrust order that homed …
Genetic testing company 1health.io settles by paying $75K to the FTC for exposing sensitive health data, in the first FTC enforcement over genetic information
The case is the latest in a series of FTC enforcement actions focused on health data privacy and the first involving genetic information.