The Irish data regulator fined social media giant Meta 91 million euros after an investigation found the company insecurely stored passwords of millions of European Facebook and Instagram users. A Meta spokesperson said the company identified the problem in 2019 and took "immediate action."
The Irish data regulator launched an investigation to determine Google's compliance with a European privacy law when it was developing its PaLM 2 artificial intelligence model. Google launched the multilingual generative AI model last year.
The Dutch data regulator is the latest agency to fine artificial intelligence company Clearview AI over its facial data harvesting and other privacy violations of GDPR rules, joining regulatory agencies in France, Italy, Greece and the United Kingdom.
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.
Privacy regulators in the U.K. and Canada have launched a joint investigation into 23andMe after the direct-to-consumer genetic testing service suffered a massive data breach in October 2023 that led to the theft of 6.9 million individuals' ancestry details.
Enterprise browsers offer corporations many advantages over traditional web browsers, from simplifying application delivery to protecting intellectual property. They offer precise control over user interactions with applications and data, said Steve Tchejeyan, president of Island.
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.
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 Data Protection Board guides the harmonization of regulations across 27 EU member states. EDPB Chair Anu Talus sheds light on the board's mission and the transformative impact of the General Data Protection Regulation since its inception in 2018.
In the latest weekly update, legal expert Jonathan Armstrong joined three ISMG editors to discuss the Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit against Apple, ransomware payment dilemmas and AI copyright infringement fears - highlighting the intricate legal issues shaping big tech and cybersecurity.
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.
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