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Google accused of misleading consumers to grab more data for ads

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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

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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

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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

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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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Microsoft hit with EU privacy complaints over schools’ use of 365 Education suite

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Microsoft’s education-focused flavor of its cloud productivity suite, Microsoft 365 Education, is facing investigation in the European Union. Privacy rights non-profit noyb has just lodged two complaints with Austria’s data protection authority. The complaints examines the use of Microsoft’s cloud software by schools. The first one focuses on transparency and legal basis issues. noyb says

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EU’s ChatGPT taskforce offers first look at detangling the AI chatbot’s privacy compliance

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A data protection taskforce that’s spent over a year considering how the European Union’s data protection rulebook applies to OpenAI’s viral chatbot, ChatGPT, reported preliminary conclusions Friday. The top-line takeaway is that the working group of privacy enforcers remains undecided on crux legal issues, such as the lawfulness and fairness of OpenAI’s processing. The issue

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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram security clash and the “edge lords” at OpenAI 

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Meredith Whittaker has had it with the “frat house” contingent of the tech industry. I sat down with the CEO of Signal at VivaTech in Paris to go over the wide range of serious, grown-up issues society is facing, from disinformation, to who controls AI, to the encroaching surveillance state. In the course of our

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Flock Safety’s solar-powered cameras could make surveillance more widespread

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Flock Safety is a multibillion-dollar startup that’s got eyes everywhere. As of Wednesday, with the company’s new Solar Condor cameras, those eyes are solar-powered and using wireless 5G networks to make them all that much easier to install. Adding solar power to the mix means that the company’s mission to blanket the country with cameras

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