Facebook parent company fined €91m over password storage
An inquiry was launched in April 2019 by the Irish Data Protection Commission.
Irish Data Protection Commission
Facebook parent company fined €91m over password storage
An inquiry was launched in April 2019 by the Irish Data Protection Commission.
Google hit with European privacy probe over its AI system
Regulators are cracking down on tech firms’ development of artificial intelligence systems over data protection concerns.
Irish data protection watchdog probes Google’s processing of personal data for AI training
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) launched a cross-border inquiry into Google’s compliance with privacy laws in processing EU citizen’s data for its artificial intelligence (AI) model PaLM 2, according to a Thursday (12 September) press release.
Unresolved questions over X’s deal with Ireland to halt AI data processing
Despite the conclusion of the Irish Data Protection Commission’s (DPC) court proceedings against social media platform X, questions about its Artificial Intelligence (AI) data practices and compliance with EU data protection laws remain.
Irish data privacy watchdog case against X is ‘struck out’
Court proceedings from the Irish Data Protection Commission against X are officially over as of Wednesday (4 September), after the company agreed to permanently stop processing some personal data collected in the EU to train artificial intelligence (AI).
X hit with nine data protection complaints after announcing it will partially suspend data processing for AI training
X was hit with eight data protection complaints across Europe on Monday, just days after it said it will suspend the processing of some EU users’ personal data for AI training.
X suspends processing of some personal data for AI training
Social media giant X has suspended the processing of some personal data from EU users’ public posts to train AI models, two days after the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) launched court proceedings over the practice.
Irish privacy watchdog takes X to court over data processing for AI training
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) initiated court proceedings against the social media platform X on Tuesday (6 August), according to Ireland’s High Court website.
X slammed with data privacy complaint over AI training
Consumer organisations allege X’s artificial intelligence (AI) tool is in violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in a complaint filed with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Monday (5 August).
Elon Musk’s X under fire over harvesting users’ data to train AI chatbot
The platform’s lead EU regulator is looking into the matter, which may infringe upon the bloc’s privacy rules.
The preamble to Meta’s decision to halt AI launch in EU
On Friday afternoon, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced it is pausing plans to roll out artificial intelligence (AI) features that would use users’ public posts to train its AI models. The company cited a request from the Iri…
Breaking: Meta halts AI rollout in Europe after ‘request’ from Irish data protection authorities
Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta is pausing its plans to roll our artificial intelligence tools in Europe, following a request from Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), the firm said in a Friday (14 June) blogpost.