The U.S. should be working with the EU to establish global standards on privacy, safety and security, American and European officials said Wednesday during the Business Software Alliance’s Transform event.
Balancing access to data and confidentiality is getting tougher as data sharing continues to drive innovation, European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiorowski said Thursday. However, secure multi-party computation (SMPC) could reconcile those conflicting goals by allowing organizations to jointly compute insights without revealing the underlying data, he said.
The U.K. watchdog agency ICO hit self-employed business executive Bharat Singh Chand with a 200,000 pound ($264,500) fine for sending almost 1 million spam texts about debt solutions and energy savings grants, it announced Wednesday. His actions violated the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003.
The ICO issued an enforcement notice Tuesday as it slammed the South Wales Police for "serious delays" in handling subject access requests (SARs).
LinkedIn will train AI systems using personal data of those who haven't opted out starting Nov. 3, Italian DPA Garante warned Tuesday.
Generative AI used by EU institutions must serve the public interest without compromising data protection standards, the European Data Protection Supervisor said Tuesday. The EDPS published updated guidance on EU agencies' use of generative AI to "reflect the fast-moving technological landscape and the evolving challenges" such systems pose.
U.S. company Clearview AI is "spitting in the face of EU authorities" by continuing to scrape people's online photos and selling its facial recognition database to law enforcement agencies and governments, Austrian privacy advocate Noyb said Tuesday as it filed a criminal complaint with Austrian public prosecutors. Clearview didn't immediately comment.
The U.K. Online Safety Act (OSA) has made progress in the two years since it took effect, but broad gaps remain in child-protection provisions, said 5Rights Foundation, an international children's rights advocacy group.
Europe's new Entry/Exit System (EES) requires "effective supervision" to safeguard people's privacy rights, European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiorowski said Friday.
The increasing use of AI requires a stronger commitment to AI literacy, the Dutch DPA said Thursday as it published a guide to building that literacy to help organizations understand their legal obligations under the EU AI Act.