On Tuesday, France Digitale, the country’s leading startup lobby is preparing to file a complaint against Apple with French data privacy watchdog CNIL alleging that the iPhone maker breached European Union rules. France Digitale’s seven page complaint against Apple, is backed by most French digital entrepreneurs and venture capitalists; the complaint alleges that Apple’s latest…
According to a document filed in the U.S. District Court in Illinois, China’s ByteDance has agreed to settle a $92 million class-action lawsuit from U.S. TikTok users who had alleged data privacy concerns. ByteDance, TikToko’s owner, has agreed to the settlement after more than a year of litigation. “While we disagree with the assertions, rather…
The European Union has scrapped the likelihood of a ban on facial recognition technology in public spaces. In 2019, in a draft the European Commission had proposed the idea of a moratorium of up to five years to give the EU time to work on ways to prevent abuses of this technology. The pros and…
The focus of the FTC’s investigation into Facebook’s data breach was whether the sharing of personal data of 87 million users with British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica violated its 2011 agreement with the FTC wherein it had pledged to safeguard user’s privacy. As per a report from the Wall Street Journal citing sources familiar…
The European Union’s data protection supervisor will investigate whether Microsoft Corp is in compliance with the EU’s new GDPR rules. In a significant development, the European Union’s data protection supervisor disclosed, it has launched an investigation into whether services and products provided by U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp to EU institutions are in compliance with…
A top advisor to the European Court of Justice is of the opinion that search engines, including Google, should not be made to enforce the EU ‘right to be forgotten’ law beyond the boundaries of the bloc. As per an advisor to the European court of Justice, the European Union’s top court, Google and other…
Of the 87 million Facebook users who were affected by the personal data privacy breach, 3 million were from Europe. A spokesman for Hamburg’s data protection ombudsman stated, the city has opened non-compliance procedures against Facebook, the world’s biggest social network which in recent days have been accused of abusing its users’ data. In a…
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