EU digital chief urges TikTok to quickly adopt new rules
The European commissioner overseeing the digital market on Wednesday urged Chinese video-sharing platform TikTok to accelerate its adoption of new EU standards.
Jul 19, 2023
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News tagged with data privacy
Consumer & Gadgets
Right to be Forgotten laws must extend to generative AI, say researchers
If only the internet embraced the notion behind the popular Las Vegas slogan: "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas."
Security
Researchers create privacy technique that protects sensitive data while maintaining performance
Imagine that a team of scientists has developed a machine-learning model that can predict whether a patient has cancer from lung scan images. They want to share this model with hospitals around the world so clinicians can ...
Jul 14, 2023
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Study addresses privacy-preserving collaborative data collection and analysis with many missing values
To control pandemics like the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), data such as the age, gender, family composition, and medical history of infected individuals are required. While patients themselves may provide this ...
Jul 7, 2023
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Dominance, data, disinformation: Europe's fight with Big Tech
The European Commission, which said Wednesday that Google had abused its online ad dominance, has taken the fight to US tech giants on a variety of fronts—from tax avoidance, disinformation and hate speech to data privacy ...
Jun 14, 2023
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Microsoft will pay $20M to settle U.S. charges of illegally collecting children's data
Microsoft will pay a fine of $20 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it illegally collected and retained the data of children who signed up to use its Xbox video game console.
Jun 6, 2023
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Amid volumes of mobile location data, new framework reduces consumers' privacy risk, preserves advertisers' utility
The use of mobile technologies to collect and analyze individuals' location information has produced massive amounts of consumer location data, giving rise to an elaborate multi-billion-dollar system in which consumers can ...
Jun 5, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Amazon to pay $31 million in privacy violation penalties for Alexa voice assistant and Ring camera
Amazon agreed Wednesday to pay a $25 million civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations it violated a child privacy law and deceived parents by keeping for years kids' voice and location data recorded by ...
Jun 1, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Booting up artificial personality in AI systems
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used increasingly in many different walks of life from the large language models and image-generation tools that can produce readable text and intriguing graphics based on a prompt to ...
May 31, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Social media expert discusses consequences of changes for TikTok, Twitter
Montana has become the first state to ban TikTok, with Gov. Greg Gianforte signing a bill that will levy steep fines on any platform selling the popular, Chinese-owned social media app. Meanwhile, tech mogul Elon Musk, whose ...
May 22, 2023
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