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A US government review board said in a scathing report released on Tuesday that a "cascade of security failures" by Microsoft allowed Chinese-backed hackers to break into the email accounts of senior US officials. The Cyber Safety Review Board concluded that the online intrusion was "preventable" and that Microsoft's corporate culture "deprioritised enterprise security investments and rigorous risk management". It said that "Microsoft's security culture was inadequate and requires an overhaul" given the company's central role in the global technology ecosystem. European Commission ordered to b...
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Lawmakers are set next week (10 April) to approve rules under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) designed to ease cross-border cooperation between national data protection authorities. The procedural rules, proposed by the European Commission in July 2023 as an addition to the GDPR, aim to ensure that privacy complaints involving several member states are resolved swiftly, and to give businesses more legal certainty. The rules also aim to give complainants as well as parties under investigation more rights in disputes. Under the GDPR, which came into force in 2018, complaints a...
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Google has agreed to delete billions of records containing personal information from people in the US who used its Chrome web browser. The purge of information collected from more than 136 million people comes as part of a lawsuit settlement, the details of which emerged in a court filing on Monday. The lawsuit from 2020 alleges that Google tracked users' internet activity even when they were in "Incognito" mode. French watchdog imposes a €250 million fine on Google amid dispute with news publishersGoogle vigorously fought the lawsuit until US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rejected a r...
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Ces lignes directrices, qui s'adressent aux plateformes en ligne comptant plus de 45 millions d'utilisateurs actifs dans l'UE - désignées comme "très grandes plateformes en ligne et moteurs de recherche" en vertu de la loisur les services numériques (DSA) - définissent des mesures potentielles pour lutter contre les risques liés aux élections, les contenus créés par l'intelligence artificielle et les publicités politiques trompeuses. Elles comprennent également des lignes directrices spécifiques concernant les élections européennes du mois de juin, alors que beaucoup anticipent un déluge de fa...
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The guidelines – targeted at online platforms with more than 45 million active users in the EU, and therefore designated 'Very Large Online Platforms and Search Engines' under the bloc's pioneering Digital Services Act (DSA) – set out potential measures to tackle election-related risks, harmful AI content, and misleading political advertising. They also include specific guidelines for June's crunch pan-EU election, amid fears of increased malign interference and a deluge of misinformation online. Although the guidelines are not legally binding, the Commission could launch formal proceedings ag...
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Mercredi dernier, le Parlement européen a approuvé la loi sur l'intelligence artificielle, qui adopte une approche fondée sur les risques pour garantir que les programmes d'IA mis à disposition du public respectent la législation en vigueur. Un jour plus tard, la Commission européenne a demandé à Bing, Facebook, Google Search, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube et X, dans le cadre d'une législation distincte, d'expliquer en détail comment ils limitaient les risques de l'IA générative. Si l'UE s'inquiète surtout des "hallucinations" de l'IA (lorsque les modèles font des erreurs et inventent d...
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As the EU's new flagship tech laws, the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act, are coming into full application, Big Tech is working hard to shoot them down. As of today, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) becomes fully applicable, following its counterpart the Digital Services Act (DSA) on 17 February. However, as the EU's new tech laws are coming into full application, tech corporations like Apple, Amazon, Meta and TikTok are already undermining them at every turn. To subvert these new regulations, tech corporations have filed a number of lawsuits against the European Commission and at...
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Some 80 per cent of men working with tech companies believe that women in the industry are treated equally, according to a recent survey. The findings dispute years of data and the experiences of women in the industry. For Hannah Samano, CEO and Founder of Femtech company Unfabled, there is an idea that the tech ecosystem is open to anyone who wants to play, but she says this is categorically false. “There are invisible structural challenges that currently prevent equality. If you were a man and had never faced these, you probably wouldn’t know they existed,” she told Euronews Next. According ...
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A former TikTok executive has filed a lawsuit against the social media platform, alleging she was retaliated against and fired from her position because the company’s owners in China determined she “lacked the docility and meekness” required of female employees. Katie Puris, who was the Global Head of Brand & Creative at TikTok, alleged in a lawsuit filed this week in a Manhattan federal court that she was fired in 2022 after making internal complaints about gender and age discrimination linked to what she called a preference among company executives for hiring young people. According to the c...
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Children want greater protection online and want technology companies and governments to do more to keep them safe, according to a new study released on Tuesday. The research coincides with Safer Internet Day, a day to raise awareness of a safer and better internet for all, especially for children. It also comes after Silicon Valley social media Übermenschen, such as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, were grilled in a US Senate hearing last week on “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis”. The study, by the charity Save the Children and the Young & Resilient Research Centre at Wester...
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