IT総合 Credit scoring firms face curbs after landmark EU data protection ruling
Credit scoring companies operating in the European Union could be facing tighter curbs under the bloc’s privacy la...
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IT総合 IT総合 EU ‘final’ talks to fix AI rules to run into second day — but deal on foundational models is on the table
As European Union lawmakers clock up 20+ hours of negotiating time in a marathon attempt to reach agreement on how to re...
IT総合 UK age assurance guidance for porn sites gives thumbs up to AI age checks, digital ID wallets and more
The U.K.’s Internet regulator has set out draft guidance for how porn sites will need to meet a newly introduced h...
IT総合 Meta faces $600M competition damages claim in Spain as media owners pursue privacy breach lawsuit
Meta is facing a major legal challenge and damages claim in Spain that argues the adtech giant’s years of failing ...
IT総合 Meta faces more questions in Europe about child safety risks on Instagram
Meta has received another formal request for information (RFI) from European Union regulators seeking more details of it...
IT総合 European consumer groups band together to fight Meta’s self-serving ad-free sub — branding it ‘unfair’ and ‘illegal’
Days after a privacy complaint was lodged against Meta in the European Union over its latest controversial shift of lega...
IT総合 Elon Musk is now taking applications for data to study X — but only EU researchers need apply…
Lawmakers take note: Elon Musk-owned X appears to have quietly complied with a hard legal requirement in the European Un...
IT総合 Google search ads spotted in compromising placements
Research delving into a less visible component of Google’s search ads business — a network of third party si...
IT総合 Meta’s EU ad-free subscription faces early privacy challenge
Meta’s shiny new bid to circumvent European Union privacy rules — by offering users a false choice between p...
IT総合 Amazon’s iRobot purchase sucks up formal competition concerns in EU
European Union regulators have sent Amazon a formal statement of objections setting out competition concerns over its pr...
IT総合 California’s privacy watchdog eyes AI rules with opt-out and access rights
California’s Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) is preparing for its next trick: Putting guardrails on AI. The state...
IT総合 EU widens scope of food delivery cartel concerns probe
European Union antitrust regulators have carried out another series of raids on two online food delivery companies headq...
IT総合 Don’t expect competition authorities to wade into the Microsoft-OpenAI power-play — yet
As the tech world watches Microsoft suck in top execs and AI engineering talent from OpenAI, the generative AI giant in ...
IT総合 Signal details costs of keeping its private messaging service alive
What price privacy? End-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging app Signal has put out an interesting overview of the costs re...
IT総合 France’s Mistral dials up call for EU AI rules to fix rules for apps, not model makers
Divisions over how to set rules for applying artificial intelligence are complicating talks between European Union lawma...
IT総合 EU faces privacy complaint over CSAM microtargeting ads it ran on X
A microtargeted advertising controversy which has implicated European Union lawmakers in privacy-hostile practices banne...
IT総合 Amazon next in line for EU scrutiny over product risks and user rights
Ecommerce behemoth Amazon has joined the growing list of tech giants getting formal requests for information (RFIs) from...
IT総合 Meta and Snap latest to get EU request for info on child safety, as bloc shoots for ‘unprecedented’ transparency
Meta and Snap are the latest tech firms to get formal requests for information (RFI) from the European Commission about ...
IT総合 EU asks TikTok and YouTube for more info on how they’re safeguarding kids
The European Commission has sent another couple of formal requests for information to major platforms subject to the blo...
IT総合 Secure messaging app Signal moves a step closer to launching usernames
End-to-end encrypted messaging app, Signal, is getting closer to launching a much anticipated feature that will allow us...
IT総合 UK’s online safety regulator puts out draft guidance on illegal content, saying child safety is priority
The U.K.’s newly empowered Internet content regulator has published the first set of draft Codes of Practice under...
IT総合 Withings Body Scan review: A smart scale that tracks cardio heath, body comp and more
French health tech brand Withings has been around the block and some. These days it offers a range of fitness wearables ...
IT総合 The 20 best STEM toys to gift coders-in-training
There’s no doubt the STEM toys category has lost a bit of its magic. The hype that started about a decade ago, pow...
IT総合 Daye now offers tampon-based STI screening — starting in the UK
UK femcare-turned-gynaecological-health startup, Daye, has expanded its tampon-based home screening service to add STI t...
IT総合 Dreamfarm, a startup out of Italy’s Food Valley, is setting its sights on the perfect vegan mozzarella
Vegan cheese isn’t usually anything to write home about, in terms of taste and texture. Dreamfarm, a startup based...
IT総合 Meta’s latest privacy rip-off will test the EU’s mettle for reining in Big Tech
This week Europe was treated to another show of the mutability of tech after Meta, the microtargeting ad empire formerly...
IT総合 Meta to offer ad-free subscription in Europe in bid to keep tracking other users
Meta is to offer an ad-free subscription version of Facebook and Instagram in the European Union, EEA (European Economic...
IT総合 Web Summit names ex-Wikimedia CEO, Katherine Maher, to take over in wake of Cosgrave controversy
Web Summit has named a new CEO: Katherine Maher — previously CEO and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundatio...
IT総合 EU lawmakers agree on key detection limits in controversial CSAM-scanning file
Key negotiators in the European Parliament have announced making a breakthrough in talks to set MEPs’ position on ...
IT総合 EU commissioner sidesteps MEPs’ questions about CSAM proposal microtargeting
The European Union’s home affairs commissioner, Ylva Johansson, has confirmed the Commission is investigating whet...