European Commission is deliberating whether to adopt a three to five-year facial recognition ban that will give them some time to figure out how best to regulate the new technology.
noyb’s privacy complaint characterizes PPA as an improvement over traditional user tracking via cookies, but says that it is insufficient to meet GDPR standards.
noyb is bringing GDPR complaints against a number of companies that use "cookie banners" to collect consent for identification and tracking measures when websites are visited.
Clearview AI's controversial facial recognition software is facing legal complaints in the EU challenging the troubled company on the basis of violating data protection laws by "scraping" websites.”
The EU privacy watchdog opened 2022 with an order to Europol to delete stored data on persons not connected to or involved with a crime. But a mid-2022 reform of Europol's governing regulations retroactively legalized this data practice.
More than just a facial recognition ban, the proposal calls for automated systems recognizing "gait, fingerprints, DNA, voice, keystrokes and other biometric or behavioral signals" to be kept out of all of the EU's publicly accessible spaces.
EU officials are considering wide-ranging regulation that would include heavy restrictions on a range of "high risk" AI applications; a leaked document also indicates that a facial recognition ban is being proposed.
Just about all of the big names in tech have now faced issues with EU regulations, but Meta has been unique in its insistence in not being subject to GDPR user consent requirements. Its ad-free service model is under fire once again.
TikTok is currently working on opening the first of its European data centers in Dublin, as it faces the prospect of a ban if it does not come into compliance with EU rules under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
As Apple fends off a variety of antitrust probes, one of the chief arguments it has put forward centers on platform privacy and security. Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, is having none of it.
