IT総合 Meta faces data retention limits on its EU ad business after top court ruling
The European Union’s top court has sided with a privacy challenge to Meta’s data retention policies. It rule...
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IT総合 IT総合 Meat replacement startup Heura has a new mission to slay junk food with healthier plant-based swaps
The offices of plant-based protein startup Heura are tucked away down a narrow street a short distance from one of Barce...
IT総合 EU’s DSA enforcers send more questions to Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube about AI risks
On Wednesday the European Union requested more information from Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube about their respective cont...
IT総合 EU’s DSA enforcers send more questions to Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube about AI risks
On Wednesday the European Union requested more information from Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube about their respective cont...
IT総合 Microsoft to face higher competition scrutiny in Germany, including over its use of AI
Germany's Federal Cartel Office (FCO) said the software giant could face restrictions if the competition authority deems...
IT総合 Meta fined $101.5M for 2019 breach that exposed hundreds of millions of Facebook passwords
Reset your clocks: Meta has been hit with yet another privacy penalty in Europe. On Friday, Ireland’s Data Protect...
IT総合 Early sign-ups to EU’s AI Pact include Amazon, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI — but Apple and Meta are missing
The European Commission has revealed a list of the first 100-plus signatories to the AI Pact — an initiative focused on ...
IT総合 Mozilla hit with privacy complaint in EU over Firefox tracking tech
Mozilla, the non-profit that develops the Firefox web browser, has been hit with a complaint by European Union privacy r...
IT総合 Google’s revised ad targeting plan triggers fresh competition concerns in UK
What is going on with Google’s long-touted migration to an alternative adtech stack (aka its Privacy Sandbox propo...
IT総合 The EU’s 10 biggest antitrust actions on tech
While it's fair to say the EU's antitrust tech enforcement outcomes have varied, one lasting legacy is that some of thes...
IT総合 LinkedIn has stopped grabbing U.K. users’ data for AI
The U.K.’s data protection watchdog has confirmed that Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has stopped processing user data f...
IT総合 EU to tell Apple how to do interoperability, DMA style
The European Union has opened two “specification proceedings” on Apple under the bloc’s Digital Market...
IT総合 AI governance can’t be left to the vested interests
A final report by the UN’s high level advisory body on artificial intelligence makes for, at times, a surreal read...
IT総合 Google nets court win against EU’s $1.7B AdSense antitrust decision
Google has succeeded in overturning a $1.7 billion antitrust penalty handed down by the European Union back in March 201...
IT総合 SocialAI offers a Twitter-like diary where AI bots respond to your private posts
Are we at peak social media yet? It’s an interesting question to ponder after the launch of an iOS app offering a ...
IT総合 SocialAI offers a Twitter-like diary where AI bots respond to your posts
Are we at peak social media yet? It’s an interesting question to ponder after the launch of an iOS app offering a ...
IT総合 UK’s privacy watchdog takes credit for rise of ‘consent or pay’
The UK’s data protection watchdog claims a crack down on websites that don’t ask for consent from visitors t...
IT総合 Irish Big Tech watchdog digs into platforms’ content reporting mechanisms after DSA complaints
Ireland’s media regulator said it is reviewing how major platforms let users report illegal content, following a high nu...
IT総合 Google’s GenAI facing privacy risk assessment scrutiny in Europe
Google’s lead privacy regulator in the European Union has opened an investigation into whether or not it has compl...
IT総合 Google loses appeal against EU’s €2.4B Shopping antitrust decision, as bloc also wins Apple state aid appeal
Google has once again lost in its bid to overturn a 2017 antitrust decision by the European Commission. The bloc found i...
IT総合 Formo gets investors’ mouths watering with Koji protein-based animal-free cheese
A love of food — and, well, cheese — has landed German fermentation startup Formo‘s co-founder Roman P...
IT総合 Google faces provisional antitrust charges in UK for ‘self-preferencing’ its ad exchange
More antitrust woes for Google. The U.K’.s competition watchdog said on Friday that it suspects the company of adt...
IT総合 Elon Musk’s X could still face sanctions for training Grok on Europeans’ data
Earlier this week, the EU’s lead privacy regulator ended its court proceeding related to how X processed user data...
IT総合 German LLM maker Aleph Alpha pivots to AI support
Europe doesn’t have many large language model (LLM) makers but one of these rare AI beasts — Germany’s...
IT総合 French cleantech startup Calyxia nets $35M to tackle microplastics pollution
With a fresh $35M in the bank, French cleantech startup Calyxia has profitability within sight. But it's just getting st...
IT総合 Ireland’s privacy watchdog ends legal fight with X over data use for AI after it agrees to permanent limits
The exact contents of X's (now permanent) undertaking with the DPC have not been made public, but it's assumed the agree...
IT総合 Clearview AI hit with its largest GDPR fine yet as Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable
The Netherlands' data protection authority has imposed a penalty of €30.5M on Clearview AI for GDPR violations.
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IT総合 Uber fined $324M over EU driver data transfer breach
Ride-hailing platform Uber has been fined €290 million — around $324 million at current exchanges rates — by...
IT総合 Tingit is building a marketplace for ‘zero-effort’ repairs, starting with fashion
Tingit, a startup out of Lithuania, wants to help people restore their used clothing to their former glory with its newl...
IT総合 Under DMA probe, Apple tweaks design of EU browser choice screens, expands app default settings
Apple continues to adjust its approach to compliance with the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA): Announci...