TikTok has been fined £12.7 million (about $15.7 million) for breaches of UK data protection laws. The UK’s data protection regulator (the ICO) has announced a fine of £12.7 million for “failing to use children’s personal data lawfully”. More specifically, the announcement states more than one million UK children under the age of 13 used ..
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This is the Age of artificial intelligence (AI). We think it is new, but it isn’t. The AI Revolution has been in progress for many years. What is new is the public appearance of the large scale generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) known as ChatGPT (an application of Large Language Models – LLMs). ChatGPT has breached ..
Under intense scrutiny from Washington that could lead to a potential ban, the top attorney for TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance defended the social media platform’s plan to safeguard U.S. user data from China. “The basic approach that we’re following is to make it physically impossible for any government, including the Chinese government, ..
Italy is temporarily blocking the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT in the wake of a data breach as it investigates a possible violation of stringent European Union data protection rules, the government’s privacy watchdog said Friday. The Italian Data Protection Authority said it was taking provisional action “until ChatGPT respects privacy,” including temporarily limiting the company from processing ..
The Online Safety Bill is the enactment of two long held UK government desires: the removal of harmful internet content, and visibility into end-to-end (E2E) content. The latter is just a byproduct of enforcing the former. Both are justified on national security (terrorism) and protection of children requirements (child pornography). At the time of writing, ..
Social media platform Facebook unlawfully processed Dutch users’ personal details without consent for advertising purposes for almost a decade, Amsterdam-based judges ruled on Wednesday. The judgement by the Amsterdam District Court said Facebook Ireland — custodians of Dutch users’ personal details — not only used the data for advertising, but also passed it to third ..
Dal 2015 al 2021, oltre 1 milione di richieste sono state inviate a Google e Microsoft Bing, la metà delle quali proveniva dai paesi dell’Europa occidentale. L’Italia è al 5° posto con 89,1 mila richieste totali. E’ quanto emerge da un report realizzato da Surfshark, che analizza le richieste di “diritto all’oblio”. Un dato sutti: ..
Circolazione dei dati personali tra contratto e responsabilità Riflessioni sulla fragilità del consenso e sulla patrimonializzazione dei dati personali nella società della sorveglianza digitaleIl nuovo libro di Emilio Tosi Professore Associato Diritto Privato Università di Milano Bicocca e Direttore esecutivo Centro Studi DIRITTO NUOVE TECNOLOGIE.Giuffrè Editore Il presente studio monografico offre un contributo allo studio ..
Internet privacy company Proton can spot attacks on democracy in a country before they hit the headlines, simply by watching demand for its services explode, its chief told AFP. When Russia blocked access to independent news sites following its invasion of Ukraine a year ago, the small company which provides virtual private networks (VPNs) saw ..
The United States is ratcheting up national security concerns about TikTok, mandating that all federal employees delete the Chinese-owned social media app from government-issued mobile phones. Other Western governments are pursuing similar bans, citing espionage fears. So how serious is the threat? And should TikTok users who don’t work for the government be worried about ..
