IT総合 Study of TikTok, X ‘For You’ feeds in Germany finds Far Right political bias ahead of federal elections
Recommendation algorithms operated by social media giants TikTok and X have shown evidence of substantial Far Right poli...
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IT総合 IT総合 Murena now sells a ‘deGoogled’ Pixel Tablet
Murena, the French privacy firm that’s forked Android to deliver so-called deGoogled smartphones, has repeated the...
IT総合 What is an encryption backdoor?
Talk of backdoors in encrypted services is once again doing the rounds after reports emerged that the U.K. government is...
IT総合 Europe denies dropping AI liability rules under pressure from Trump
The European Union has denied that recent moves to row back on some planned tech regulation — principally by ditch...
IT総合 EU’s Disinformation Code moves closer to becoming DSA benchmark
Staying on the right side of the European Union’s online rulebook when it comes to the slippery topic of disinform...
IT総合 Apple’s app tracking privacy framework could fall foul of German antitrust rules
Germany’s antitrust watchdog has been investigating Apple’s app privacy framework since 2022. On Thursday, r...
IT総合 EU abandons ePrivacy, AI liability reforms as bloc shifts focus to AI competitiveness
A long stalled bid to beef up European Union rules around online tracking technologies — and put penalties on a si...
IT総合 EU looks to the private sector to help fund ‘AI Gigafactories’, eyeing the frontier AI race
The European Union is courting the private sector as it looks to step up compute capacity for training large AI models. ...
IT総合 Google-backed public interest AI partnership launches with $400M+ pledged for open ecosystem building
Make room for yet another partnership on AI: Current AI, which is being billed as a “public interest” initia...
IT総合 PromptLayer is building tools to put non-techies in the driver’s seat of AI app development
The GenAI boom of the last few years has unleashed a wave of startups promising to support the process of prompt enginee...
IT総合 EU details which systems fall within AI Act’s scope
The European Union has published guidance on what constitutes an AI system under its new AI Act. The risk-based framewor...
IT総合 Shein gets more questions from EU about DSA compliance
After consumer protection scrutiny dialled up on fast-fashion giant Shein in the European Union on Wednesday, the bloc&#...
IT総合 First lab-grown meat treats go on sale in the UK — for dogs
Cultivated chicken doggie snacks have gone on sale at a U.K. pet food retailer, Pets at Home. The retailer also happens ...
IT総合 Shein hit with consumer protection action in EU as bloc unboxes strategy to tackle low-cost ecommerce risks
Chinese ecommerce and fast fashion giant Shein is facing fresh scrutiny in the European Union in relation to consumer pr...
IT総合 EU puts out guidance on uses of AI that are banned under its AI Act
The first compliance deadline kicked in a couple of days ago for the European Union’s AI Act, a risk-based framewo...
IT総合 LogicStar is building AI agents for app maintenance
Swiss startup LogicStar is bent on joining the AI agent game. The summer 2024-founded startup has bagged $3 million in p...
IT総合 Ultrahuman stakes a claim to luxury smart rings with trio of 18K gold and pt950 platinum bands
Smart ring maker Ultrahuman took the wraps off a trio of extra shiny high-tech trinkets at CES 2025 on Tuesday, adding a...
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...
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...