Big Tech Faces EU Scrutiny Over AI Data Practices
The EU’s data protection rules are increasingly impacting Big Tech’s AI projects, with stricter enforcement and legal uncertainties hindering innovation.
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Google’s Ad Tech Business Faces Potential Breakup in Europe
The European Union’s antitrust authorities are considering a potential breakup of Google’s ad technology business, mirroring US actions, in a significant shift towards a more aggressive regulatory stance against large tech companies’ market dominance.
European Commission proposes new rules to speed up GDPR enforcement
The European Commission has proposed new rules to speed up GDPR enforcement by requiring privacy regulators to share information upfront in major cases and settle disputes out of court, although the draft law has faced criticism from both privacy activists and Big Tech companies.
Europe-wide overhaul of GDPR monitoring triggered by ICCL
Following the actions of ICCL, the EU Commission is launching routine assessments of all “large-scale” GDPR cases across Europe.
Big changes coming for GDPR enforcement on Big Tech in Europe?
The European Commission is stepping up its watch on how data protection authorities across the EU’s apply the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Irish DPA warns of urgent need for new senior staff
Pre-budget submission earlier this year outlined ‘cascading pressures and constraints’.
How GDPR Is Failing
The world-leading data law changed how companies work. But four years on, there’s a lag on cleaning up Big Tech.
Big Tech data harvesting comes under fire by world central bank group
A paper published by the world’s main central bank umbrella group has called for individuals and firms to be given more control over the data collected on them.
Microsoft, Apple, and Google Promise to Expand Passwordless Features
The passwordless future just became closer to reality, as Microsoft, Apple, and Google pledged to make passwordless possible across operating systems.
Big Tech braces for breakups as UK opens new era of enforcement
In ordering Facebook to sell Giphy, the CMA has gone further than any other competition regulator in the world.
EU warns adtech giants over ‘legal tricks’ as it moots changes to centralize privacy oversight
The European Commission has given its clearest signal yet that it’s prepared to intervene over weak enforcement of the EU’s data protection rules against big tech.
How Big Tech turns privacy laws into privacy theater.
Companies like to tell us that they “care” about our privacy or that our “privacy is important” to them, but the truth is different.