Personal data breach notifications jumped significantly last year in Europe, while privacy enforcement activities remained high, DLA Piper lawyers said during a Thursday webinar presenting the firm's annual fines and data breach survey.
EU lawmakers pressed the European Commission on Tuesday to make full use of Europe's digital laws against activities such as Grok's creation of nude and child sexual images. At a European Parliament plenary, members debated a resolution on tackling AI deepfakes and sexual exploitation on social media (see 2601150001).
The U.K. Office of Communications (Ofcom) will continue its probe of Grok, despite assurances from X that it will prevent the tool from creating intimate images of people, Ofcom said Thursday. Another U.K. regulator, ICO, asked X to make the changes immediately, ICO emailed us Thursday.
French telco Free will appeal the "unprecedented" decision of privacy regulator CNIL to fine it and Free Mobile 15 million euros ($17.5 million) and 27 million euros ($31.5 million), respectively, for failing to keep 24 million subscribers' data secure, a spokesperson for Iliad Group, which owns the providers, said in an emailed statement Wednesday. It intends to appeal the decision to France's Supreme Administrative Court, the spokesperson added.
The U.K. Office of Communications launched a formal investigation against X Monday to determine if its AI chatbot Grok is complying with obligations under the Online Safety Act (OSA).
A Belgian case making its way to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) could have important implications for transfers of EU residents' banking data to the U.S. under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2010 (FATCA), Mayer Brown attorneys said in a Jan. 6 analysis.
Condemnation of X's AI chatbot Grok exploded this week as DPAs, U.S. lawmakers and a civil society group blasted the platform for allowing users to create images showing child sex and naked people.
European lawmakers and governments have begun vetting the European Commission's digital omnibus proposal, a European Parliament spokesperson and an EU official with the European Council told us this week. But there's no timeline yet for approval of the proposal, they said.
Data protection regulators in the EU and U.K. are "signalling a more flexible, pragmatic approach" to data subject access requests (DSARs), but there's little guidance so far to help companies navigate them, Ropes & Gray privacy attorneys Suzanne Wilson and Edward Machin wrote in an analysis last week.
U.S. attempts to pressure the EU to back off its digital rules could backfire against American tech companies, telecom consultant Innocenza Genna wrote Dec. 24 on his blog.