Pinterest tracks users without consent, alleges complaint
Pinterest is facing a complaint because it failed to comply with GDPR rules about using personal data for personalized advertising.
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X accused of unlawfully using personal data of 60 million+ users to train its AI
Privacy watchdog NOYB has filed complaints against X for using social media data to train its AI chatbot Grok.
Read moreX accused of “unlawfully using the personal data of more than 60 million users” to train its AI
Privacy watchdog NOYB has filed complaints against X for using social media data to train its AI chatbot Grok.
Read moreICANN Launches Service to Help With WHOIS Lookups
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:51:58 +0000
More than five years after domain name registrars started redacting personal data from all public domain registration records, the non-profit organization overseeing the domain industry has introduced a centralized online service designed to make it easier for researchers, law enforcement and others to request the information directly from registrars.
Read moreTikTok facing fines for violating children’s privacy
Categories: News Categories: Privacy Tags: tiktok Tags: privacy Tags: gdpr Tags: children Tags: under 13 TikTok is looking at yet another fine… |
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Read moreMeta fined $1.3B for violating EU GDPR data transfer rules on privacy
The Irish Data Protection Commission has levied a record-breaking fine against Facebook's parent company, Meta, for transferring data to the US without data privacy safeguards.
Ex-CEO of breached pyschotherapy clinic gets prison sentence for bad data security
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 16:56:03 +0000
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Read moreEU parliamentary committee says 'no' to EU-US data privacy framework
The European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs has recommended that the European Commission reject the proposed EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which would govern the way in which the personal information of EU citizens is handled by US companies.
The committee’s decision — formally, a draft motion for a resolution— represents a rejection of the European Commission’s recommendation, announced in December, that the data privacy framework should be adopted. The recommendation stated that US law now offers an “adequate” level of protection for the personal data of EU users of US companies’ services.
TikTok CEO told to “step up efforts to comply” with digital laws
Categories: News Categories: Privacy Tags: TikTok Tags: Shou Zi Chew Tags: Thierry Breton Tags: EU Commissioner Tags: Digital Markets Act Tags: DMA Tags: Digital Services Act Tags: DSA Tags: Vera Jourova Tags: Caroline Greer Tags: GDPR Tags: General Data Protection Regulation Tags: Code of Practice on Disinformation In a recent meeting with TikTok’s CEO, EU commissioner Thierry Breton impressed upon the company the need to comply with EU laws in light of the DSA, the DMA, and the GDPR. |
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Read moreEurope threatens to ban Facebook over data transfers to the US
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 09:36:30 +0000
The EU is warning Meta that it needs to make big changes to the way it handles data transfers between the Europe and US.
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