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Ireland’s data regulator investigates X’s use of European user data to train Grok

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Ireland’s data regulator, the Data Protection Commission (DPC), said Friday that it has opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over the social media platform’s use of personal data collected from European users to train Grok. The DPC will investigate how X processes personal data “comprised” in publicly accessible posts by European users for the […]

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Meta settles UK ‘right to object to ad-tracking’ lawsuit by agreeing not to track plaintiff

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A human rights campaigner, Tanya O’Carroll, has succeeded in forcing social media giant Meta not to use her data for targeted advertising. The agreement is contained in a settlement to an individual challenge she lodged against Meta’s tracking and profiling back in 2022. O’Carroll had argued that a legal right to object to the use

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ChatGPT hit with privacy complaint over defamatory hallucinations

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OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in Europe over its viral AI chatbot’s tendency to hallucinate false information — and this one might prove tricky for regulators to ignore. Privacy rights advocacy group Noyb is supporting an individual in Norway who was horrified to find ChatGPT returning made-up information that claimed he’d been convicted for

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Ireland and Italy send data watchdog requests to DeepSeek: ‘The data of millions of Italians is at risk’

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The jury is still out on whether the Chinese AI upstart DeepSeek is a game changer or part of an elaborate plan by its hedge fund parent company to short Nvidia and other tech stocks. Whichever it might be (maybe both?), DeepSeek and its large language model have made some major waves. And now, it’s

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Italy sends first data watchdog request to DeepSeek: ‘The data of millions of Italians is at risk’

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The jury is still out on whether the Chinese AI upstart DeepSeek is a game changer or possibly part of an elaborate plan by its hedge fund parent company to short Nvidia and other tech stocks. Whichever it might be (maybe both?), DeepSeek and its large language model has made some major waves. Now, it’s

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EU court fines European Commission for breaching its own data privacy laws

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A top court has ordered the European Union’s top executive authority to pay €400 (around $410) in damages to a German citizen for breaching its own data protection laws. In a statement, the EU General Court said the European Commission violated the citizen’s rights by transferring some of his personal data to the United States

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News agency AFP notifies French authorities of potential data breach

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Agence France-Presse, one of the world’s largest news organizations, has notified French regulators of a potential data breach following a cyberattack last week. The AFP, which has an editorial presence in 260 cities across 150 countries, said in a brief statement on Saturday that it detected an “attack on its systems” that affected part of

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Ireland’s privacy watchdog ends legal fight with X over data use for AI after it agrees to permanent limits

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The lead privacy watchdog for X (formerly Twitter) in the European Union has ended court proceedings against the social media platform for processing user data for AI model training without people’s consent. This comes after it said the company had agreed to permanently abide by an undertaking made last month in front of an Irish

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EU warns X over illegal content risks. Musk replies with Tropic Thunder insult meme

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How is the European Union’s bid to get Elon Musk to follow its rules going? Judging by the memes, not well. You may recall the X owner previously told his own advertisers to “go f*** yourself,” so it’s perhaps little wonder he’s flirting with flipping the bird at Thierry Breton, the commissioner in charge of

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