IT総合 Major Big Tech privacy watchdog in EU set to get two more commissioners soon
Fancy overseeing whether Big Tech is playing by European Union privacy rules? The Irish government has posted job ads fo...
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IT総合 IT総合 Elon Musk’s X removes general option to report misleading info about politics
X (formerly Twitter) appears to have removed an option that allowed users in a handful of markets to directly report mis...
IT総合 Deepfake election risks trigger EU call for more generative AI safeguards
The European Union has warned more needs to be done to address the risks that widely accessible generative AI tools may ...
IT総合 X (formerly Twitter) is worst for disinformation, per EU analysis
X (formerly Twitter) has been called out in the European Union for having the worst ratio of disinformation/misinformati...
IT総合 Uber Eats and Getir ink tie-up in Europe for speedy grocery deliveries
Uber Eats and quick commerce player Getir have inked a grocery delivery partnership, starting in the UK. The tie-up, whi...
IT総合 Correcto grabs $7M to build out its ‘Grammarly for Spanish’
The generative AI boom has put a spring in the step of Correcto, a Madrid-based language writing tool startup focused on...
IT総合 Intel (re)fined $400M by EU for ‘naked restrictions’ dating back to the noughties
Talk about old news: The European Union has reimposed a fine (totalling €376.36 million) on Intel for antitrust violatio...
IT総合 Microsoft-Activision: UK looks poised to clear restructured deal
The UK’s competition watchdog has signalled it’s preparing to greenlight a restructured proposal for Microso...
IT総合 UK bolts US ‘data bridge’ deal onto EU-US Data Privacy Framework
The UK government has officially confirmed it will piggyback on a transatlantic data transfer deal between the European ...
IT総合 Poland opens privacy probe of ChatGPT following GDPR complaint
OpenAI is facing another investigation into whether its generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, complies with European Union pri...
IT総合 Meta targeted for fresh UK gov’t warning against E2E encryption for Messenger, Instagram
Buckle up for another encryption fight: Hot on the heels of securing parliament’s approval for its Online Safety B...
IT総合 Untap Health wants to help offices and care homes track risk from bugs like flu and COVID-19
Ever since the pandemic we’ve been told we’ll need to learn to live with COVID-19, while also being warned i...
IT総合 UK’s competition watchdog drafts principles for ‘responsible’ generative AI
An initial review of generative AI by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) which was announced back in...
IT総合 TikTok fined $379M in EU for failing to keep kids’ data safe
It’s been a long time coming but TikTok has finally been found in breach of the European Union’s General Dat...
IT総合 EU to let ‘responsible’ AI startups train models on its supercomputers
The European Union has signalled a plan to expand access to its high performance computing (HPC) supercomputers by letti...
IT総合 X Corp faces Dutch privacy class action over MoPub data trading
Make way for another Dutch class action privacy damages lawsuit — this one targeting the company formerly known as...
IT総合 Google’s adtech targeted by Dutch class-action style privacy damages suit
Google is facing class-action style litigation in the Netherlands which accuses the adtech giant of breaching European p...
IT総合 Ministerial statement on UK’s Online Safety Bill seen as steering out of encryption clash
The UK government appears to have steered out of a direct collision with the tech industry over a controversial, encrypt...
IT総合 Meta denied injunction against Norway’s ban order on its surveillance ads
Meta has lost a first bid to get an injunction slapped on a ban Norway’s data protection authority imposed on its ...
IT総合 EU confirms six (mostly US) tech giants are subject to Digital Markets Act
The European Union has named six tech giants whose market power it hopes to rein in by applying a new set of proactive, ...
IT総合 A closer look at e/OS: Murena’s privacy-first ‘deGoogled’ Android alternative
Murena is in the business of deGoogling Android smartphones in the name of privacy. The French/European firm has been do...
IT総合 Jude is building a bladder health champion
Bladder health isn’t the sexiest subject in the world so it probably won’t surprise you there are so few sta...
IT総合 UK gov’t urged against delay in setting AI rulebook as MPs warn policymakers aren’t keeping up
A UK parliamentary committee that’s investigating the opportunities and challenges unfolding around artificial int...
IT総合 ChatGPT-maker OpenAI accused of string of data protection breaches in GDPR complaint filed by privacy researcher
Questions about ChatGPT-maker OpenAI’s ability to comply with European privacy rules are in the frame again after ...
IT総合 Longevity loving Fairphone 5 unwrapped, with pledge of 8+ years software support
Ethical electronics startup, Fairphone, has taken the recycled wrapping off a new flagship smartphone, the Fairphone 5, ...
IT総合 Fitbit targeted with trio of data transfer complaints in Europe
Google-owned Fitbit is facing a trio of privacy complaints in the European Union which allege the company is illegally e...
IT総合 Social media giants urged to tackle data-scraping privacy risks
A joint statement signed by regulators at a dozen international privacy watchdogs, including the UK’s ICO, Canada&...
IT総合 Google to go further on ads transparency and data access for researchers as EU digital rulebook reboot kicks in
Google has said it will increase how much information it provides about ads targeted at users in the European Union. It ...
IT総合 Snap confirms EU users will soon be able to opt out of content ‘personalization’
Snap has become the latest mainstream social media firm to trail incoming changes in Europe that include the ability for...
IT総合 UK’s CMA confirms decision to block Microsoft-Activision but opens fresh probe of restructured deal proposal
The UK’s antitrust regulator has confirmed its April decision to block the $68.7BN Microsoft-Activision gaming meg...