Google will appeal a fine imposed by the French government over European privacy rules, the company said Thursday. France’s privacy regulator said earlier this week that it’s fining the internet giant 50 million euros (about $57 million) for not properly disclosing to people how their data was collected and passed to advertisers. The fine was imposed …
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Italy’s Competition Authority on Friday slapped Facebook with two fines that total 10 million euros ($11.4M) for using people’s data for commercial purposes in ways that break the country’s laws. Italy issued the first fine after deciding that the social network persuaded people to register for accounts on the platform without informing them during the signup process that their data …
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Consumer groups in seven EU countries on Tuesday sought action against Google for allegedly breaching privacy laws by tracking people’s movements. The complaints from groups in Norway, the Netherlands, Greece, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland and Sweden say the search giant’s location tracking is violating the General Data Protection Regulation, based on Norwegian research. The European Consumer Organisation, an umbrella …
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Twitter is being investigated by Irish data protection authorities about how it tracks people when they click links. The social network is under examination by the Data Protection Commission in Ireland, where the company has its European headquarters, Fortune reported Friday. The investigation was sparked by a complaint that Twitter may not be complying with strict new data privacy rules, known as …
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Many US news sites have yet to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation after more than two months, leaving European visitors blocked. Digital outlets run by Tronc, Lee Enterprises and GateHouse Media are among the hundreds of US news websites that remain unavailable within the EU, according to NiemanLab. The General Data Protection Regulation, also known as GDPR, …
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When big companies buy tiny, beloved products like Instapaper, there’s always a fear they’ll get unceremoniously killed off. Particularly when a new privacy law (GDPR) makes it tempting for companies to destroy things rather than spend money updating them. But Instapaper isn’t getting the ax — after two years under its owner Pinterest, the bookmark-and-read-it-later app is going indie, and …
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AI software reportedly uncovered suspected GDPR breaches by Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook. The software — created by EU Institute researchers and a consumer group — looked at the privacy policies of 14 major technology businesses in June, the month after the EU’s new data privacy laws went into effect, according to Bloomberg. Researchers named the software “Claudette” — short for …
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Mark Zuckerberg was saved by the bell at the European Parliament on Tuesday. The Facebook CEO sat through about an hour of questions from members of the group, and then spent only about 25 minutes answering them. The format for Zuckerberg’s testimony in Brussels was a stark contrast from his appearance on Capitol Hill in April. Instead of answering each …
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Google introduced its new user privacy policy on Friday in advance of a strict, new European data privacy law due to come into effect on May 25. The actual content of the policy hasn’t changed, but Google has updated the language and navigation of the document, and introduced videos and illustrations in order to make it clearer than ever before …
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Facebook is close to a deal that would bring CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Brussels to answer questions from members of the European Parliament, according to a report by Politico. Earlier this month, Zuckerberg endured 10 hours of grilling over two days in the chambers of Congress. That followed the onset several weeks earlier of a spiraling scandal for Facebook triggered …
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