The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office Thursday slapped IT provider Advanced Computer Software Group Ltd with a $3.9 million fine for failing to take appropriate security measures to prevent a 2022 ransomware attack. The security failure put the personal data of more than 79,000 people at risk, the watchdog said.
Location data is at the heart of many uses, French privacy regulator CNIL said in a Tuesday consultation on a recommendation for the use of location data from connected vehicles.
The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework could be on the verge of collapse in the wake of President Donald Trump firing two FTC Democrats and ongoing uncertainty about the previous administration’s executive order to implement the framework for data transfers, said Austrian privacy activist and EU lawyer Max Schrems during a Tuesday webinar that George Washington Law School Professor Daniel Solove hosted.
French data protection regulator CNIL launched a consultation on a draft recommendation about how healthcare institutions should handle electronic patient records.
Open AI's ChatGPT regularly "hallucinates" about people, providing false information without giving them a way to correct it, European privacy advocacy group Noyb charged Thursday in a complaint to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority.
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) announced Thursday it's conducting an audit of the country's Immigration Directorate.
French regulator CNIL and the country's Competition Authority exchanged views earlier this month about the links between data protection and competition in AI development, CNIL announced Thursday.
The Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner closed its informal preliminary investigation into X's use of data for training its AI system Grok, it announced Thursday. It found that X users can refuse to have their public messages used for AI training, and that the platform is in compliance with the country's privacy law.
The Luxembourg Administrative Tribunal Wednesday upheld a July 2021 decision by the National Data Protection Commission that slapped Amazon with a fine of 746 million euros ($808 million) for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) breaches. The court also ordered the platform to take corrective measures or face a daily penalty of 746,000 euros.
The European Commission has "seen the news about the dismissal of two FTC Commissioners," an EC spokesperson emailed us Thursday. "We will follow closely any appointment procedure and judicial proceedings concerning members of the FTC." The dismissals have sparked uncertainty about the future of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework which enables trans-Atlantic flows of personal data (see 2503190046).