As first reported by MLex, the EC's proposed legislative changes are manifold, and in Noyb's view these would poke so many holes in existing rules to "make [GDPR] overall unusable for most cases." The EC is planning to introduce the "Digital Omnibus" package on November 19, introducing amendments to legislation covering AI regulation, cybersecurity, data protection, and privacy.
The European Union wants to amend the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) to stimulate AI development. A package of changes is intended to give companies more leeway to process sensitive data, while American pressure to simplify digital regulations is increasing. The GDPR is considered the gold standard for data privacy worldwide, but investors and American tech giants have been complaining about its restrictions for years. The regulations are said to undermine Europe's competitive position in AI.
A coalition of reporters obtained the dataset, offered as a free sample from a data broker, containing 278 million location data points from the phones of millions of people around Belgium. Much of the location data is uploaded by ordinary apps installed on a person's phones, which is sold to data brokers. Those data brokers then sell that data to governments and militaries.
The complaint focuses largely on Clearview's apparent disregard for fines from France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK. Aside from the UK - where Clearview recently lost its appeal of a $10 million fine from the Information Commissioner's Office - the company has yet to pay other fines totaling more than $100 million, Noyb claims. "EU data protection authorities did not come up with a way to enforce its fines and bans against the US company, allowing Clearview AI to effectively dodge the law," said Noyb in its announcement today.
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Regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's (Apra's) CPS 230 standard have led organisations to become "really obsessed" with the 72-hour notification window following a data breach, according to Shannon Murphy, global security and risk strategist at Trend Micro.
You can't outsource accountability, but many organizations are doing just that, often without even realizing it. This is especially the case when it comes to data. As businesses rely more heavily on third-party suppliers to store, move, and manage their data, the risk of something going wrong multiplies. Whether that's compliance, the ability to restore lost data, or susceptibility to cyber attack.
Under the GDPR, "personal data" is broadly defined and includes both directly identifiable information (e.g., names, contact details) and indirectly identifiable information (e.g., IP address, unique IDs). "Pseudonymous data" constitutes personal data if individuals can be identified using "reasonably likely" means - taking into account all objective factors such as cost, time, and available technology. By contrast, "anonymous data" is information which does not relate to an identified or identifiable individual.
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One of the headlining features of Apple's new AirPods Pro 3 was the ability to translate incoming audio in real time, but it seems the feature won't work in the European Union at launch. On its official page detailing the features available on iOS 26, the company said EU residents or those with EU Apple IDs won't be able to use live translation, which is powered by Apple Intelligence and will also be coming to AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2.
On September 1, France's CNIL imposed a fine of EUR 325M on Google for displaying advertisements between Gmail users' emails without their consent and for placing cookies when creating Google accounts, without valid consent of French users. Following a complaint filed by the organization None Of Your Business on August 24, 2022, the CNIL conducted several inspections between 2022 and 2023 on Gmail messaging service and on the process of creating a Google account.
Meta has agreed for the first time to stop using the personal data of a specific individual for targeted advertising, as part of a negotiated settlement with human rights campaigner Tanya O'Carroll.
