A federal judge has halted implementation of a California law intended to restrict companies’ use of information gathered from young internet users in order to protect the privacy of minors. U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman on Monday granted a preliminary injunction, saying the legislation interferes with firms’ use of the internet in ways the ..
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European regulators slapped TikTok with a $368 million fine on Friday for failing to protect children’s privacy, the first time that the popular short video-sharing app has been punished for breaching Europe’s strict data privacy rules. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, the lead privacy regulator for Big Tech companies whose European headquarters are largely in Dublin, ..
You may not know it, but thousands of often shadowy companies routinely traffic in personal data you probably never agreed to share — everything from your real-time location information to private financial details. Even if you could identify these data brokers, there isn’t much you can do about their activities, including in California, which has ..
Search giant Google agreed to a $93 million settlement with the state of California on Thursday over its location-privacy practices. The settlement follows a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states, reached in November 2022, to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations. The states’ investigation was sparked by a 2018 Associated Press ..
Aiutare le aziende ad usare al meglio l’Intelligenza Artificiale, in modo semplice e corretto tramite i dati sintetici. Questa in sintesi la mission di Clearbox AI, una startup torinese specializzata in AI, la cui Ceo Shalini Kurapati è stata premiata dalla Commissione Ue come una delle principali ‘Lady Tech’ europee. Kurapati prenderà parte all’evento ‘State ..
Una multa di 45mila euro è stata comminata dal Garante Privacy al Comune di Modica per aver installato alcune telecamere per il controllo della raccolta differenziata dei rifiuti in violazione della disciplina che tutela i dati personali. Il Comune, per contrastare il fenomeno diffuso dell’abbandono dei rifiuti, aveva incaricato due ditte, dell’acquisto, installazione e manutenzione di telecamere ..
Mozilla has analyzed 25 major car brands and gave all of them failing marks for privacy and security. They collect significant amounts of personal data and they can share it with others, often without the customer’s explicit permission. As part of its ‘Privacy Not Included’ project, Mozilla has analyzed privacy policies and apps provided by ..
reader comments 11 with On Tuesday, Google announced the launch of its Duet AI assistant across its Workspace apps, including Docs, Gmail, Drive, Slides, and more. First announced in May at Google I/O, Duet has been in testing for some time, but it is now available to paid Google Workspace business users (what Google calls ..
Starting Friday, Europeans will see their online life change. People in the 27-nation European Union can alter some of what shows up when they search, scroll and share on the biggest social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram and Facebook and other tech giants like Google and Amazon. That’s because Big Tech companies, most headquartered in ..
Indian lawmakers Wednesday approved a data protection legislation that “seeks to better regulate big tech firms and penalize companies for data breaches” as several groups expressed concern over citizens’ privacy rights. The legislation will limit cross-border transfer of data and provide a framework for setting up a data protection authority to ensure compliance from tech ..
