Privacy

Elon Musk’s X agrees to pause EU data processing for training Grok

Elon Musk has agreed to stop turning Europeans’ X posts into AI training fodder for his Grok chatbot — for now. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), which leads on privacy oversight of X under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), announced the development in a press release Thursday, saying it welcomed the social media

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Meta will pay Texas $1.4B in settlement over facial recognition software

Meta reached a $1.4 billion settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday to settle a 2-year-old lawsuit related to the company’s use of facial recognition software. “After vigorously pursuing justice for our citizens whose privacy rights were violated by Meta’s use of facial recognition software, I’m proud to announce that we have reached

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Meta given weeks to tell EU consumer protection authorities how it’ll fix ‘pay or consent’

Meta has been given until September 1 to respond to consumer protection concerns in the European Union. The Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) Network, a network of authorities responsible for the enforcement of EU consumer protection laws, is concerned about a binary choice Meta has forced on regional users of Facebook and Instagram since last November.

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Google’s latest Privacy Sandbox gambit could pit user choice against tracking

In a material development that will likely have a big impact on online business models, Google is no longer proposing to deprecate third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome browser. Instead, it appears to be suggesting that users should be given a choice to accept or deny ad tracking at the browser level. Google’s move will

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Google accused of misleading consumers to grab more data for ads

Italy’s competition and consumer watchdog has announced an investigation into how Google gets users’ consent in order to link their activity across different services for ad profiling, saying it suspects the adtech giant of “unfair commercial practices.” At issue here is how Google obtains consent from users in the European Union to link their activity

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More bad news for Elon Musk after X user’s legal challenge to shadowban prevails

It’s shaping up to be a terrible, no good, really bad news month for the company formerly known as Twitter. Elon Musk’s X has just been hit with a first clutch of grievances by the European Union for suspected breaches of the bloc’s Digital Services Act — an online governance and content moderation rulebook that

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A new startup from Figure’s founder is licensing NASA tech in a bid to curb school shootings

In 2013, there were 26 reported school shootings in the U.S. That figure rose to 82 a decade later. America has a school shooting problem, this much we can agree on. The cause of — and solution to — the issue, on the other hand, is where things start to fall apart. It has become

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LinkedIn to limit targeted ads in EU after complaint over sensitive data use

LinkedIn has confirmed it will no longer allow advertisers to target users based on data gleaned from their participation in LinkedIn Groups. The move comes more than three months after a collective of civil society groups filed a complaint with the European Commission (EC) over a potential violation of the Digital Services Act (DSA). The

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