The Irish data regulator launched an investigation into Dublin-based ultra low-cost carrier Ryanair to identify potential privacy violations related to the company's use of third-party facial recognition technology, stepping into a running fight Ryainair has fought against online ticket sellers.
Targeted advertising may face additional restrictions following a ruling by the top European Union court that social media giant Meta cannot indefinitely retain user data. Nor can it use data for advertising "without distinction as to type of data," the European Court of Justice said Friday.
The Irish data regulator fined social media giant Meta 91 million euros after an investigation found the company insecurely stored passwords of millions of European Facebook and Instagram users. A Meta spokesperson said the company identified the problem in 2019 and took "immediate action."
The Irish data regulator launched an investigation to determine Google's compliance with a European privacy law when it was developing its PaLM 2 artificial intelligence model. Google launched the multilingual generative AI model last year.
The Dutch data regulator is the latest agency to fine artificial intelligence company Clearview AI over its facial data harvesting and other privacy violations of GDPR rules, joining regulatory agencies in France, Italy, Greece and the United Kingdom.
Social media platform X faces the prospect of more legal scrutiny in Europe over its decision to feed customer data into its Grok artificial intelligence system after it agreed Thursday to suspend harvesting tweets as training data. NOYB said the company it is still likely violating privacy law.
The Irish data regulator sued social media platform X, accusing the service of wrongfully harvesting users' personal data for its artificial intelligence model Grok. During a hearing on Tuesday, regulators told the High Court of Ireland that X violated GDPR rules.
The British data regulator reprimanded the U.K.'s Electoral Commission for its failure to prevent a 2021 hack attack that resulted in the exposure of millions of voter records. Hackers breached the Electoral Commission's networks after exploiting the ProxyShell vulnerability.
Social media giant Meta will delay plans to train artificial intelligence with data harvested from European Instagram and Facebook users weeks after a rights group lodged a complaint against the company with 11 European data regulators. A Meta spokesperson said the delay is temporary.
Privacy regulators in the U.K. and Canada have launched a joint investigation into 23andMe after the direct-to-consumer genetic testing service suffered a massive data breach in October 2023 that led to the theft of 6.9 million individuals' ancestry details.
Meta's plan to train artificial intelligence with data generated by Facebook and Instagram users faces friction in Europe after a rights group alleged it violates continental privacy law. Austrian privacy organization NOYB said it lodged complaints against Meta with 11 European data regulators.
Social media giant Meta's attempt to navigate European data protection rules by offering a fee-based opt-out from behavioral advertising came under fire Wednesday by a trading bloc agency that said freedom from personalized marketing should typically be free.
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