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.
Personal data protection is a fundamental EU right and is not negotiable in trade deals, The European Commission has provided four conditions for international data flows to comply with the GDPR. Yet, there is a “get out of jail free card,” allowing restrictions to be reviewed and accorded "sympathetic" consideration.
Irish DPC publishes report and guidance on the use of cookies and Internet tracking after conducting a ‘cookie sweep’ to observe how they were used on popular websites.
It appears that for some, including the biggest names in tech, the possibility of pulling out of Europe over the new Schrems data transfer requirements is not entirely off the table.
