Privacy & Compliance
There is a lot going on around privacy and compliance, especially in Europe. This in itself is a good thing, because data should be adequately protected, especially if it concerns personal data. In practice, however, it turns out to be quite disappointing how well organizations do this. We read and write a lot about data breaches. Over the years there seem to be more rather than fewer of them. Is that because organizations don’t want to do better or can’t do better? Whatever the reason, a good policy on privacy and compliance is indispensable in the current era. Especially with all kinds of new legislation that has been introduced and is coming, the need to put this high on the agenda is only increasing.
Timeline
Governments offer almost all services digitally, but accessibility lags behind
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Apple gets observer position on OpenAI’s board of directors
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“French antitrust case against Nvidia to combat AI domination”
Suit may target software lock-in rather than hardware
Meta’s subscriptions in violation of DMA
'Pay or okay' model illegal
Want freedom of choice, security and data residency? Better pay up
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Almost all European web sites fail accessibility test
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EU launches antitrust case against Microsoft for favouring Teams
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UK police force’s Azure data left the country despite legislation
According to correspondence between Scottish police and Microsoft, the latter cannot guarantee that UK police...
Qualcomm settles for 75 million over deceptive sales and licensing practices
Qualcomm has reached a 75 million dollar (69.8 million euros) settlement in a lawsuit with shareholders. This...
The US wants the Netherlands to exclude more Chinese companies from using ASML machines
The U.S. government wants the Netherlands and Japan to do more to prevent chip technology manufactured in the...