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| 15.09.2024 | X столкнулся с санкциями за обучение Grok на персональных данных европейцев | Регулятор ЕС по защите персональных данных прекратил судебное разбирательство по поводу того, как компания X обрабатывала данные пользователей для обучения своего чат-бота Grok AI, но для принадлежащей Илону Маску социальной медиаплатформы,... |
| 12.09.2024 | Top EU privacy regulator opens probe into Google's AI compliance | DUBLIN :Google's lead EU privacy regulator opened an inquiry on Thursday into whether the search engine adequately protected European Union users' personal data before using it to help develop its foundational AI Model.
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| 13.08.2024 | X Under Fire: Privacy Complaints Over AI Training Spark Controversy | In the digital age, privacy is a fragile glass. One crack, and it shatters. Recently, the social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, found itself in the eye of a storm. An Austrian advocacy group, NOYB, has filed a series of complaints ag... |
| 12.08.2024 | X hit with Austrian data use complaint over AI training | VIENNA : Austrian advocacy group NOYB on Monday filed a complaint against social media platform X accusing the Elon Musk-owned company of training its artificial intelligence (AI) with users' personal data without their consent in violation... |
| 12.08.2024 | Elon Musk, X Faces EU Privacy Complaints for Grok AI's Training With User Data | By Isaiah Richard
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| 09.08.2024 | X/Twitter pune pe pauză antrenarea „robotului” conversațional Grok cu datele utilizatorilor din UE | Platforma socială deținută de miliardarul Elon Musk, X, denumită anterior Twitter, a oprit antrenarea chatbot-ului Grok pe baza postărilor utilizatorilor europeni, după ce a fost dată în judecată în Irlanda, potrivit TechCrunch.
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| 29.07.2024 | X использовал данные пользователей для обучения своего чат-бота без их согласия | Twitter, теперь известный как X, находится в процессе расследования со стороны главного европейского надзорного органа в связи с предполагаемым использованием пользовательского контента для обучения чат-бота с искусственным интеллектом по и... |
| 26.07.2024 | Navigating the Digital Frontier: Accountability and Overreach in Tech Regulation | In the vast landscape of the digital world, two recent events highlight the struggle between accountability and overreach. On one side, Nigeria’s hefty fine against Meta Platforms Inc. for a data breach signals a new era of digital accounta... |
| 24.07.2024 | Does Nigeria’s $220 million Meta fine signal a new era of digital accountability? | Nigeria has made headlines with its recent decision to fine Meta Platforms Inc., the company behind Facebook, $220 million over a major data breach. The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Nigeria’s main IT watchdog,... |
| 08.07.2024 | Africa: Power-Hungry AI Is Driving a Surge in Tech Giant Carbon Emissions. Nobody Knows What to Do About It | Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the world has seen an incredible surge in investment, development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) applications. According to one estimate, the amount of computational power used for AI ... |
| 28.04.2024 | ChatGPT’s ‘hallucination’ problem hit with another privacy complaint in EU | OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in the European Union. This one, which has been filed by privacy rights nonprofit noyb on behalf of an individual complainant, targets the inability of its AI chatbot ChatGPT to correct misinformat... |
| 17.04.2024 | Adtech giants like Meta must give EU users real privacy choice, says EDPB | The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published new guidance that has major implications for adtech giants like Meta and other large platforms.
Since November 2023, the owner of Facebook and Instagram has forced users in the Europea... |
| 20.03.2024 | EU signals doubts over legality of Meta’s privacy fee | The European Union has given its strongest signal yet that a controversial tactic rolled out by Meta last November to extract consent to tracking from regional users of Facebook and Instagram — by forcing them to choose between paying a mon... |
| 19.03.2024 | Meta offers lower cost for EU ad-free subscription under privacy review | Meta has proposed to drop the price of an ad-free subscription in the European Union — currently the only way regional users of its social networks, Facebook and Instagram, can avoid its tracking and profiling.
Meta’s lawyer Tim Lamb reveal... |
| 16.09.2023 | TikTok оштрафовали на €345 млн за сбор данных детей | Комиссии по защите данных Ирландии (DPC) сообщила, чтоTikTok нарушила законы о конфиденциальности в 2020 году. Представители платформы не согласились с решением, так как соцсеть начала регулировать данные об аккаунтах детей еще до начала ра... |
| 15.07.2023 | Жителям Евросоюза начали ограничивать доступ к Threads | Как передает TechCrunch, приложение недоступно на территории Евросоюза из-за проблем с конфиденциальностью.
«Европа по-прежнему остается невероятно важным рынком для Meta, и мы надеемся в будущем сделать Threads доступным здесь», — цитирует... |
| 26.06.2023 | Irish government criticized over proposed law-change that would ‘muzzle’ Big Tech critics | An 11th-hour amendment to the government of Ireland’s Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 will serve to “muzzle” people looking to speak out about how Big Tech and public bodies are misusing their data.
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| 13.06.2023 | 5 Questions on the Impact of Data Sovereignty on Digital Marketing | Different kinds of digital devices and apps produce tons of data, from usage stats to security alerts and multimedia content that device users generate. This data has value to various interested parties, including those involved in digital ... |
| 22.05.2023 | Meta hit with a record-breaking $1.3 billion fine over data privacy breaches | The logo of Meta, which owns Facebook, outside the company's California headquarters. Godofredo A. Vásquez/ AP Photo
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| 22.05.2023 | Meta warned that its record $1.3 billion fine sets a 'dangerous precedent' when the internet is already 'fracturing under pressure from authoritarian regimes' | Mark Zuckerberg. Alex Wong/Getty Images
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Meta was handed a record $1.3 billion fine by the European Union on Monday.
That was over concerns that Facebook data transferred to the US could be used to spy on European citizens.
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| 22.05.2023 | Meta hit with record €1.2 billion fine for transferring European Facebook user data to the US | Facebook owner Meta has been fined a record €1.2 billion (around $1.3 billion) by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC). The fine was issued for breaching EU data sharing regulations by failing to sufficiently protect user data.
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| 22.05.2023 | Meta warned that its record $1.3 billion fine sets a 'dangerous precedent' when the internet is already 'fracturing under pressure from authoritarian regimes' | Meta was handed a record $1.3 billion fine by the European Union on Monday.
That was over concerns that Facebook data transferred to the US could be used to spy on European citizens.
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| 23.01.2023 | WhatsApp fined €5.5m over GDPR breaches | In addition to the penalties, the Meta-owned platform has been ordered to bring its data processing operations into conformity within next six months.
The DPC is the EU's main privacy regulator handling Big Tech firms like Meta, due to how ... |
| 20.01.2023 | WhatsApp GDPR Fine | What You Need to Know | WhatsApp is just the latest Meta platform to be found in breach of GDPR regulations, but data privacy advocates say this ruling is just not enough.
Similar to the case put forth against Facebook and Instagram, Whatsapp, which is also owned ... |
| 19.01.2023 | WhatsApp slapped for processing data without a lawful basis under EU’s GDPR | Another bill has come in for Meta for failing to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — but this one’s a tiddler! Meta-owned messaging platform, WhatsApp, has been fined €5.5 million (just under $6M) by... |
| 10.01.2023 | Facebook data-scraping breach triggers GDPR enforcement lawsuit in Ireland | Facebook-owner Meta and its lead data protection regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), are facing an interesting legal challenge over a major data-scraping breach that led to a €265 million penalty for... |
| 05.01.2023 | Meta Found to be Non-Compliant in Landmark GDPR Case | Meta will be fined £344 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission for its use of ‘forced consent’ for personalised advertising.
The fine and decision comes after two lengthy legal battles that originated in 2018, after GDPR was first ... |
| 05.01.2023 | ЕС оштрафовал Meta* на €390 млн за нарушение безопасности личных данных | Как говорится в заявлении ведомства, жалоба на Facebook была подана из Австрии, на Instagram — из Бельгии. Оба обращения поступили в DPC 25 мая 2018 года, в день вступления в силу Общего регламента по защите данных (GDPR).
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| 05.01.2023 | Ирландский регулятор оштрафовал Meta* на €390 млн из-за утечек данных | Комиссия по защите данных Ирландии (DPC) объявила о завершении двух расследований операций по обработке информации американской корпорации Meta. Ведомство приняло решение оштрафовать компанию на €210 млн за нарушения правил защиты данных в ... |
| 04.01.2023 | Meta’s New Year kicks off with $410M+ in fresh EU privacy fines | Meta is kicking off the New Year with more privacy fines and corrective orders hitting its business in Europe. The latest swathe of enforcement relates to a number of EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) complaints over the legal ba... |
| 04.01.2023 | Facebook’s Meta fined over $400 million by EU privacy regulator for forcing users to accept targeted ads | In early December 2022, the EU privacy watchdog ruled that Meta cannot run advertising based on personal data and will need users’ consent to do so, according to a report from Reuters, citing a person familiar with the matter. Now, the hamm... |
| 04.01.2023 | Meta violates GDPR with non-compliant targeted ad practices, earns over $400 million in fines | Image: Askar/Adobe Stock Must-read big data coverage
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| 03.01.2023 | A French Perspective on Elon Musk’s Twitter | A lot has happened since Elon Musk made a sensational entrance in Twitter headquarters by carrying a sink. As soon as Musk took control of Twitter on Oct. 28, he fired a large part of the company’s workforce and launched a $7.99 pay-for-pla... |
| 26.12.2022 | Twitter data of 400 mn accounts allegedly up for sale on dark web | Sohini Bagchi 26 Dec, 2022
Over 400 million Twitter users’ data containing private emails and linked phone numbers have reportedly been up for sale on the dark web. This includes data on accounts held by the World Health Organization (WHO),... |
| 29.11.2022 | Meta fined by Irish Data Protection Commission for web scraping activity | Check out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers. Watch now.
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| 29.11.2022 | Meta hit with €265m fine by Irish privacy regulator | Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Monday imposed a €265 million ($277 million) fine on Facebook parent Meta for failing to prevent hackers from stealing the personal information of around 533 million Facebook users in a data bre... |
| 28.11.2022 | Meta hit with ~$275M GDPR penalty for Facebook data-scraping breach | Facebook’s parent, Meta, has been hit with another hefty penalty for breaching European data protection law.
The €265 million (~$275 million) fine was announced today by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), the tech giant’s lead regu... |
| 07.11.2022 | Ireland-led GDPR probe of Yahoo’s cookie banners moves to draft decision review | A multi-year investigation into TechCrunch’s parent entity Yahoo — looking at compliance with key transparency requirements of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including in relation to cookie banners displayed... |
| 03.10.2022 | 7 legal risks for ecommerce business owners | When business owners launch their ecommerce store, they first think about the design and content of the website. And that is correct, but the legal part is what they often forget – Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, right of withdrawal, cookies,... |
| 08.09.2022 | What Meta’s GDPR fine can teach CISOs about data protection | Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here.
Earlier this week, Meta was fined €405 million ($403 million USD) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), Irelan... |
| 06.09.2022 | Meta got fined $400 million for failing to protect kids' privacy on Instagram | Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan
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| 06.09.2022 | Meta got fined $400 million for failing to protect kids' privacy on Instagram | Ireland's data watchdog gave Meta a 405 million euro ($403 million) fine.
The fine is targeted at Instagram's handling of data from underage users.
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| 18.08.2022 | How this Secure Blockchain Messenger App Sets Itself Apart from Others | David Thompson, Tech Times 18 August 2022, 11:08 am
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| 29.07.2022 | Will smart glasses replace smartphones? | Image: Google Glass
On July 19, 2022, Google announced testing for new smart glasses with augmented reality technology. Inevitably, the question that has been rising in the tech industry since 2013—when Google launched their first smart gla... |
| 12.07.2022 | TikTok Gets Warning from Italy for Wanting to Unleash Unwanted Targeted Ads Even Without Consent | Urian B., Tech Times 12 July 2022, 09:07 pm
TikTok was attempting to unleash targetted ads to users despite not receiving their consent but luckily, Italy warned against it. Now, the company is reconsidering its decision to launch targeted ... |
| 31.05.2022 | Apple is dreaming up ways to put a camera on the Apple Watch | Apple is apparently dreaming about making a smartwatch that comes armed with a camera sensor. Titled “Watch having a camera,” a patent application filed before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) describes multiple methods... |
| 17.03.2022 | Meta Slapped With $18 Million Fine In Ireland For 2018 Data Breaches | The Ireland Data Protection Commission (DPC) has slapped Facebook’s parent company, Meta, with a €17 million (around $18.7 million) fine. The decision follows an investigation into a series of data breaches dating back to 2018.
According to... |
| 17.03.2022 | Ирландский регулятор постановил, что Meta нарушает GDPR | Ирландская комиссия по защите данных (DPC) оштрафовала Meta на $18,6 млн. Регулятор пришел к выводу, что Meta нарушила Общий регламент ЕС по защите персональных данных (GDPR).
Расследование началось еще в 2018 году. Поводом стали 12 случаев... |
| 16.03.2022 | Irish data regulator imposes $18 million fine on Facebook for privacy law violations | Team TC 16 Mar, 2022
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), which is responsible for upholding the fundamental rights of individuals in the European Union, has imposed a 17 million euro (approximately $18.7 million) fine on Facebook fo... |
| 15.03.2022 | Facebook fined $18.6M over string of 2018 breaches of EU’s GDPR | Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has been fined €17 million (~$18.6 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) over a string of historical data breaches.
The security lapses in question, which appear to have affected up to 30 mi... |
| 07.01.2022 | Stop data pollution from turning your company’s data lake into a swamp | Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream.
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| 06.01.2022 | France spanks Google $170M, Facebook $68M over cookie consent dark patterns | Chalk another one up for decentralized enforcement: France’s data protection watchdog has slapped headline-grabbing fines on Facebook and Google for failing to respect local (and pan-EU) cookie consent rules.
Today, the CNIL said it’s fined... |
| 07.12.2021 | Ireland-led GDPR inquiry into Instagram’s use of kids’ data inches on | Ireland’s embattled data protection regulator, the DPC, has announced the submission of a draft decision sent to other EU DPAs Friday in relation to a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) investigation into Instagram’s handling of chil... |
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| 20.09.2021 | Facebook warned over ‘very small’ indicator LED on smart glasses, as EU DPAs flag privacy concerns | Facebook’s lead privacy regulator in Europe has raised concerns about a pair of “smart” Ray-Ban sunglasses the tech giant is now selling. The glasses include a face-mounted camera that can be used to take pictures and short videos with a ve... |
| 20.09.2021 | European Regulators Warn Facebook Over Smart Glasses Privacy Concerns | Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesNurPhoto via Getty Images |
| 19.09.2021 | Ireland and Italy's Data Protection Regulators are concerned over Facebook's new Smartglasses filming individuals unaware
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| 18.09.2021 | This Week in Apps: Apple’s iPhone event, App Annie hit with securities fraud, OpenSea goes mobile | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
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| 15.09.2021 | European privacy regulator probes TikTok over children’s data, China ties | More On: TikTok
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| 15.09.2021 | Ireland probes TikTok’s handling of kids’ data and transfers to China | Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has yet another Big Tech GDPR probe to add to its pile: The regulator said yesterday it has opened two investigations into video sharing platform TikTok.
The first covers how TikTok handles childre... |
| 15.09.2021 | European privacy regulator probes TikTok over children’s data, China ties | More On: TikTok
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| 03.09.2021 | WhatsApp Fined $267 Million for Not Being Transparent About Data Sharing with Facebook | Urian B., Tech Times 03 September 2021, 04:09 am
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| 03.09.2021 | Ireland’s Data Protection Commission Fines WhatsApp $267 Million | WhatsApp has been fined €225 million ($267 million) for violations of the EU’s GDPR.
The GDPR is one of the most comprehensive pieces of privacy legislation in the world, and strictly regulates how companies may process and use customer dat... |
| 02.09.2021 | WhatsApp is fined $267 million for breaching EU privacy rules | Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said WhatsApp did not tell EU citizens enough about what the company does with their data.
A WhatsApp spokesperson told CNBC that the company plans to appeal. |
| 02.09.2021 | WhatsApp Faces £193m Fine for Violating Data Sharing Practices | WhatsApp is facing a substantial fine for abusing privacy legislation after failing to properly reveal how it shared data with Facebook.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) slapped the company with the €225 million (£193m) fine, whic... |
| 02.09.2021 | Ирландский регулятор оштрафовал WhatsApp на $267 млн за нарушение правил конфиденциальности | Ирландский регулятор оштрафовал WhatsApp за нарушение правил конфиденциальности по делу, начавшемуся ещё в 2018 году. Сумма штрафа составила рекордные для страны $267 млн. Ранее Ирландия не назначала такие крупные штрафы по «Общему регламен... |
| 02.09.2021 | Facebook’s WhatsApp Is Fined by European Union for Privacy Violations | European Union regulators levied a fine of nearly $270 million against Facebook ‘s WhatsApp after a probe found the chat business had broken EU data-protection guidelines.
The ruling against Facebook (ticker: FB), issued by Ireland’s Data P... |
| 02.09.2021 | WhatsApp faces $267M fine for breaching Europe’s GDPR | It’s been a long time coming but Facebook is finally feeling some heat from Europe’s much trumpeted data protection regime: Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has just announced a €225 million (~$267 million) fine for WhatsApp.
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| 02.09.2021 | WhatsApp recebe multa milionária por não ser transparente em uso de dados | € 225 milhões. Esse é o valor da multa que a Comissão de Proteção de Dados (DPC, na sigla inglês) da Irlanda aplicou ao WhatsApp nesta quinta-feira (2). Após uma investigação que teve início em dezembro de 2018, o órgão entendeu que o servi... |
| 02.09.2021 | WhatsApp оштрафовали на 225 миллионов евро | Ирландская Комиссия по защите данных оштрафовала WhatsApp на 225 миллионов евро. Об этом говорится в сообщении на сайте ведомства.
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| 23.04.2021 | Irony Alert: US Could Block Personal Data Transfers To Ireland, European Home Of Digital Giants, Because GDPR Is Not Being Enforced Properly | Last year, the EU’s top court threw out the Privacy Shield framework for transferring personal data between the EU and US. The court decided that the NSA’s surveillance practices meant that the personal data of EU citizens was not protected... |
| 23.04.2021 | Irony Alert: US Could Block Personal Data Transfers To Ireland, European Home Of Digital Giants, Because GDPR Is Not Being Enforced Properly | Last year, the EU's top court threw out the Privacy Shield framework for transferring personal data between the EU and US. The court decided that the NSA's surveillance practices meant that the personal data of EU citizens was not protected... |
| 22.04.2021 | Facebook's Distinction Between Data Breaches And Scraping Would Make A Lot More Sense If It Hadn't Argued Differently In Court | A few weeks back, news broke that some hackers were offering up personal information on over 500 million Facebook accounts (there had been some earlier reports about this data availability as well). It was even highlighted that some of the ... |
| 22.04.2021 | Facebook's Distinction Between Data Breaches And Scraping Would Make A Lot More Sense If It Hadn't Argued Differently In Court | A few weeks back, news broke that some hackers were offering up personal information on over 500 million Facebook accounts (there had been some earlier reports about this data availability as well). It was even highlighted that some of the ... |
| 15.04.2021 | Facebook is under investigation in the EU for its massive leak of 533 million people's data | Facebook denies that it listens to you via your phone's microphone.
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| 15.04.2021 | Facebook Under Investigation For Massive Data Leak | Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty ImagesAFP via Getty Images |
| 15.04.2021 | Ireland’s Data Commissioner Launches GDPR Inquiry into Facebook Data Breach | Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has announced it will investigate the recent Facebook data breach which saw hundreds of millions of users affected.
In a statement yesterday, the DPC said its investigation aimed to establish if the expo... |
| 14.04.2021 | Irish Commission Investigating Facebook Over Data Leak | The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is investigating Facebook over the 533 million user records that appeared online.
Earlier this month, user data for 533 million Facebook users was published online. The data included full names, Fa... |
| 14.04.2021 | Facebook is under investigation in the EU for its massive leak of 533 million people’s data – and it could face a fine in the billions | Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. Andrew Harnik/AP
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| 14.04.2021 | Facebook is under investigation in the EU for its massive leak of 533 million people's data - and it could face a fine in the billions | A European regulator announced that it's investigating Facebook over a leak of 533 million people's data.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission will probe whether Facebook broke EU privacy laws.
Facebook could face a fine of up to 4% of its ... |
| 07.04.2021 | Facebook says the leak of 533 million users' data online wasn't a hack - but its explanation of what happened doesn't quite add up | Insider reported last week that data for 533 million Facebook users was posted on a hacking forum.
Facebook on Tuesday said the data was "scraped" sometime before September 2019.
Its explanation for what happened doesn't quite mak... |
| 06.04.2021 | Vazamento do Facebook que afetou 533 milhões é investigado na UE e Rússia | O Facebook está sendo investigado na União Europeia e na Rússia devido ao vazamento de dados de 533 milhões de usuários. As informações, incluindo nome, número de celular e ID na rede social, ficaram disponíveis gratuitamente em fóruns onli... |
| 02.03.2021 | Как защищают данные пользователей в Ирландии и борются с техногигантами | Отчёт комиссариата Ирландии по защите данных. Наказывают Фейсбук, отменяют фичи в продуктах, вносят новые команды в голосовых ассистентов.
Комиссариат по защите данных Ирландии отчитался о своей работе и борьбе с техногигантами. Очень интер... |
| 09.02.2021 | EU’s lead data supervisor for most of big tech is still using Lotus Notes | The lead data supervisor for a slew of tech giants in the European Union, including Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, TikTok and Twitter, is still relying on Lotus Notes to manage complaints and investigations lodged under the bloc’s flags... |
| 25.01.2021 | TikTok has until Friday to respond to Italy’s order to block users it can’t age-verify after girl’s death | TikTok has until Friday to respond to an order by Italy’s data protection agency to block users whose age it cannot verify, TechCrunch has learned.
The GPDP made an “immediate” order Friday in response to the death of a 10-year-old girl fro... |
| 19.01.2021 | DPC Issues Draft Decision in Facebook-WhatsApp Data Sharing Case | Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has made a draft decision on an EU investigation into the transparency of data-sharing between WhatsApp and its parent company Facebook.
The case dates back to 2018 when GDPR was first introduced. ... |
| 15.12.2020 | Twitter fined $547K for EU privacy breach, first for a US tech firm | More On: twitter
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| 15.12.2020 | Twitter fined $547K for EU privacy breach, first for a US tech firm | More On: twitter
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| 10.12.2020 | France fines Google $120M and Amazon $42M for dropping tracking cookies without consent | France’s data protection agency, the CNIL, has slapped Google and Amazon with fines for dropping tracking cookies without consent.
Google has been hit with a total of €100 million ($120 million) for dropping cookies on Google.fr and Amazon ... |
| 21.09.2020 | Ireland’s data watchdog slammed for letting adtech carry on ‘biggest breach of all time’ | A dossier of evidence detailing how the online ad-targeting industry profiles internet users’ intimate characteristics without their knowledge or consent has been published today by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), piling more ... |
| 24.06.2020 | GDPR’s two-year review flags lack of ‘vigorous’ enforcement | It’s more than two years since a flagship update to the European Union’s data protection regime moved into the application phase. Yet the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been dogged by criticism of a failure of enforcement rel... |
| 07.04.2020 | Cookie consent still a compliance trash fire in latest watchdog peek | The latest confirmation of the online tracking industry’s continued flouting of EU privacy laws which — at least on paper — are supposed to protect citizens from consent-less digital surveillance comes by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissio... |
| 03.04.2020 | Google is now publishing coronavirus mobility reports, feeding off users’ location history | Google is giving the world a clearer glimpse of exactly how much it knows about people everywhere — using the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to repackage its persistent tracking of where users go and what they do as a public good in t... |
| 27.02.2020 | Facebook has paused election reminders in Europe after data watchdog raises transparency concerns | Big tech’s lead privacy regulator in Europe has intervened to flag transparency concerns about a Facebook election reminder feature — asking the tech giant to provide it with information about what data it collects from users who interact w... |
| 20.02.2020 | Irish data agency investigates GDPR violations by Facebook and others | Ireland’s Data Protection Commission today released its annual report, which disclosed that it has launched 21 investigations for GDPR violations, including eight involving Facebook.
The 2019 DPC report marks the first full calendar year si... |
| 20.02.2020 | Irish data agency investigates GDPR violations by Facebook and others | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 19.02.2020 | Lack of big tech GDPR decisions looms large in EU watchdog’s annual report | The lead European Union privacy regulator for most of big tech has put out its annual report which shows another major bump in complaints filed under the bloc’s updated data protection framework, underlining the ongoing appetite EU citizens... |
