IT総合 World(coin) must let Europeans comprehensively delete their data, under privacy order
It took a lot more than the initially slated few weeks to arrive, but a pivotal privacy decision that’s been hangi...
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IT総合 IT総合 EU asks for views on plan to force Apple to open up iOS
The European Commission has published draft proposals for how Apple must meet interoperability requirements flowing from...
IT総合 Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy
Apple and Meta are warring in Europe over the balance between interoperability and privacy, Reuters reports. The fight f...
IT総合 EU privacy body weighs in on some tricky GenAI lawfulness questions
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published an opinion on Wednesday that explores how AI developers might use pe...
IT総合 Five years later… Netflix hit with Dutch data access fine
Five years later sounds like a half-baked sequel to a well-known zombie flick franchise. But it’s a reference to h...
IT総合 UK consults on opt-out model for training AIs on copyrighted content
The U.K. government is consulting on an opt-out copyright regime for AI training that would require rights holders to ta...
IT総合 Meta fined $263M over 2018 security breach that affected ~3M EU users
Meta has been fined €251 million (around $263 million) in the European Union for a Facebook security breach that affecte...
IT総合 EU to investigate TikTok’s response to election security risks in Romania
TikTok is now subject to not one, but two Digital Services Act (DSA) investigations. The European Union announced on Tue...
IT総合 Meta to set up $50M privacy payment scheme to settle Australian proceeding
Meta has agreed to a $50 million payment program to settle a long-running proceeding in Australia related to misuse of i...
IT総合 Meta put on watch over terrorism content in the EU
Ireland’s media regulator has put social media giant Meta on watch over terrorist content takedowns again — it iss...
IT総合 UK’s internet watchdog finalizes first set of rules for Online Safety law
On Monday, the U.K.’s internet regulator, Ofcom, published the first set of final guidelines for online service pr...
IT総合 Controversial EU ad campaign on X broke bloc’s own privacy rules
The European Union’s executive body is facing an embarrassing privacy scandal after it was confirmed on Friday tha...
IT総合 Google wraps ‘blue links’ search test, lobbies for less maximalist application of EU’s DMA
Google has ended a test in which it was returning basic “blue link” search results for hotel-related searche...
IT総合 After Meta signals end to publisher payouts, Australia plots Big Tech news tax
A few years ago, Australia passed legislation requiring platform giants including Facebook-owner Meta and YouTube’...
IT総合 BeReal hit with privacy complaint over how it asks EU users to agree to tracking
Right after BeReal got acquired by French mobile games publisher Voodoo this summer, the candid selfie-sharing app which...
IT総合 Bid to revive UK privacy damages suit against Google DeepMind fails to show class
Another attempt to get a class-action style privacy damages case to stick against Google has failed in the U.K. after th...
IT総合 EU cybersecurity rules for smart devices enter into force
Rules for boosting the security of connected devices have entered into force in the European Union. The Cyber Resilience...
IT総合 EU’s data protection supervisor reviewing Microsoft 365 report
Back in March, the European Commission’s use of Microsoft 365 was found to have broken the bloc’s data protection rules....
IT総合 As Australia bans social media for kids under 16, age-assurance tech is in the spotlight
Age assurance, an umbrella term that refers to technologies for verifying, estimating, or inferring an internet userR...
IT総合 Planet A Foods nabs $30M to make tons more cocoa-free chocolate
Turning sunflower seeds into sustainable, cocoa-free chocolate has netted Munich-based B2B foodtech startup Planet A Foo...
IT総合 EU puts TikTok on watch over election security
The European Commission has responded to widespread concerns swirling around the impact of TikTok on elections in Romani...
IT総合 Delivery app Glovo bends to Spain’s Riders Law, will hire thousands of couriers
Glovo, a Spanish delivery app owned by Germany’s Delivery Hero, has bowed to pressure over labor rights in its hom...
IT総合 UK antitrust suit hits Microsoft with claim for $1.25B in cloud fees damages
Microsoft is in the crosshairs of a U.K. competition class-action style lawsuit that’s seeking £1 billion (around ...
IT総合 Ads might be coming to ChatGPT — despite Sam Altman not being a fan
OpenAI is toying with a move into ads, per the Financial Times. CFO Sarah Friar told the newspaper it’s weighing a...
IT総合 Ads might be coming to ChatGPT — despite Sama not being a fan
OpenAI is toying with a move into ads, per the Financial Times. CFO Sarah Friar told the newspaper it’s weighing a...
IT総合 Study of ChatGPT citations makes dismal reading for publishers
As more publishers cut content licensing deals with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, a study put out this week by the Tow Center fo...
IT総合 Indoor climbing tracking startup, Lizcore, sharpens its focus on safety as it pulls in pre-seed
Indoor climbing is a tricky sport to track. That’s why Spanish startup Lizcore caught TechCrunch’s...
IT総合 Australia approves law banning social media for under 16s
In a step likely to be tracked around the world, Australia has approved legislation that will ban the use of social medi...
IT総合 EU ends Amazon state aid case with no back taxes in its basket
Amazon can finally close the book on a long-running state aid saga in the European Union. The Commission confirmed Thurs...
IT総合 From pond scum to premium skincare? Deep Blue Biotech is all in on blue-green algae to make better chemicals
Decarbonizing our economies in the race to fight climate change demands a wholesale overhauling of all sorts of producti...