IT総合 UK revives plan to reform data protection rules with an eye on boosting the economy
A new data bill from the U.K. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) aims to revive several measures t...
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IT総合 IT総合 LinkedIn fined $356 million in EU for tracking ads privacy breaches
Bad news for Microsoft-owned LinkedIn in Europe where it has been reprimanded and fined €310 million for privacy violati...
IT総合 Intel’s $1.45 billion EU antitrust fine is officially history
A €1.06 billion EU antitrust penalty on chipmaker Intel for abuse of dominance dating back to 2009 (when it was equivale...
IT総合 Pinterest faces EU privacy complaint over tracking ads
When it comes to privacy nightmares, Pinterest is unlikely to be the first social app that springs to mind. But the visu...
IT総合 Pinterest faces EU privacy complaint over tracking ads
When it comes to privacy nightmares, Pinterest is unlikely to be the first social app that springs to mind. But the visu...
IT総合 Thousands of creatives sign petition against AI data scraping
What do the actor Kevin Bacon, the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, the musician Robert Smith, and the journalist and historian ...
IT総合 Meta tests facial recognition for spotting ‘celeb-bait’ ads scams and easier account recovery
Meta is expanding tests of facial recognition as an anti-scam measure to combat celebrity scam ads and more broadly, the...
IT総合 Ireland adopts Online Safety Code for video-sharing platforms including TikTok
Ireland’s media and internet watchdog, Coimisiún na Meán, has adopted and published an Online Safety Code that wil...
IT総合 French court blocks porn sites over age verification for child protection
The Paris Court of Appeal ordered some pornography websites to be blocked on Thursday over failure to implement robust a...
IT総合 Elon Musk’s X boosts DSA info for EU users as bloc’s probe of its complaint handling continues
An incoming privacy policy update to Elon Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) will see the company making it clearer to user...
IT総合 Glovo adds a side of social stickiness to its food delivery app
Do you want a side of socials with your fast food? Spain’s Glovo, a food delivery and quick commerce service where...
IT総合 Elon Musk’s X dodges EU’s DMA as bloc decides platform isn’t important enough for fairness controls
Elon Musk’s X won’t be regulated under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) the Commission d...
IT総合 LatticeFlow’s LLM framework takes a first stab at benchmarking Big AI’s compliance with EU AI Act
While most countries’ lawmakers are still discussing how to put guardrails around artificial intelligence, the Eur...
IT総合 How a medtech market opportunity is shaping up for wearable neurotech
When you think of brain stimulating medtech, startups building wearables as therapeutics probably aren’t the first...
IT総合 ‘Chat control’: The EU’s controversial CSAM-scanning legal proposal explained
The European Union has a longstanding reputation for strong privacy laws. But a legislative plan to combat child abuse —...
IT総合 What is wearable neurotech and why might we need it?
The wearables category already contains multitudes, from exercise-focused smart watches and sleep tracking smart rings t...
IT総合 Temu gets more questions from the EU about illegal product risks
The European Union has dialed up scrutiny of Chinese ecommerce marketplace Temu, asking for more information about its c...
IT総合 How AI-generated content is upping the workload for Wikipedia editors
As AI-generated slop takes over increasing swathes of the user-generated Internet thanks to the rise of large language m...
IT総合 US and UK announce joint children’s online safety group to push for common fixes
The U.S. and U.K. governments announced Thursday they will set up a joint children’s online safety working group to coop...
IT総合 Antitrust challenge to Facebook’s ‘superprofiling’ finally wraps in Germany — with Meta agreeing to data limits
A multi-year competition challenge to Facebook (aka Meta), which saw Germany’s antitrust authority become a pionee...
IT総合 MiLaboratories gets $10M for a platform play to accelerate genomic research
Advances in DNA sequencing and the vast amounts of genomic data being produced by next-generation sequencing (NGS) techn...
IT総合 BaCta is using engineered bacteria to grow natural rubber and slash CO2 emissions
The synthetic biology and precision fermentation space is a hotbed of entrepreneurial activity these days. But it’...
IT総合 French biotech Generare speeds up hunt for new drugs by cloning natural molecules
French biotech startup Generare has closed a €5 million seed round (around $5.5 million at current exchange rates) to st...
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...
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 ...