Privacy interest groups file complaint with EU over LinkedIn
Digital civil rights organizations recently filed a complaint with the EC against LinkedIn. This business social media platform is allegedly using privacy-sensitive data to display advertisements.
According to the complaint to the EC by Bits of Freedom, EDRi, Global Witness and Gesellschaft für... Read more
Shareholder sues Juniper over HPE acquisition
HPE's proposed acquisition of Juniper Networks is facing a new challenge. A shareholder is accusing Juniper of violating securities laws, alleging the networking vendor failed to disclose information to investors.
According to plaintiff John Zaita, disclosures to shareholders about financial arr... Read more
‘EU preparing a 500 million euro Apple fine’
Apple faces a fine of about 500 million euros in early March. EU policymakers would like to punish Apple for allegedly anticompetitive behaviour in offering music services.
The antitrust notice was filed by Spotify in 2019, alleging that iPhone users are not getting informed about alternative st... Read more
How do you prepare for the DSA or DMA, if it applies to you?
The EU is trying to make the online environment safer with a package of new measures. This concerns the DMA and the DSA. The rules are completely different, we explain the details.
The Digital Services Act package already passed the European Parliament in 2022. This package, in turn, came from a... Read more
Nokia introduces AI tool for OT environments
Nokia is introducing a suite of generative AI tools named MX Workmate. In this way, it aims to support employees in industrial (OT) environments in real-time, especially with troubleshooting and repairing machinery problems.
With the introduction of its suite of generative AI tools, MX Workmate,... Read more
iMessage and Bing fall outside the scope of EU’s DMA
The European Commission has excluded iMessage, Bing, Edge and Microsoft Advertising from the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The rules will, however, continue to apply to Apple and Microsoft's previously designated services.
Among the products subject to the DMA, iMessage, Bing, Edge and Microsoft A... Read more
X and Amazon pay approximately no supervisory fee for European DSA
Meta and ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, discovered a gap in the fee imposed by the EU Big Tech for the DSA. X, Amazon and Snapchat would contribute virtually nothing as a result, even though they are part of wat the EU sees as Big Tech.
Meta and ByteDance will challenge the supervisory f... Read more
Customers trust banking most with personal information
44 per cent of the customers feel most comfortable sharing personal information with banking companies. With that, the sector enjoys the most trust in our country.
This is according to a survey by Thales among more than 12,000 customers. Other trusted institutions are active in healthcare (41%) ... Read more
Microsoft Edge imports Chrome data without permission
The Microsoft Edge browser appears to be importing data from the Chrome browser without permission from end users. The data includes opened tabs in the Chrome browser, as well as other information.
Microsoft makes no secret of its desire to let Windows users use its own Microsoft Edge browser. T... Read more
ChatGPT’s recent leak the result of account takeover
ChatGPT inadvertently stored conversations of other users in the conversation history of another user. This poses a security problem for other users, as passwords, among other things, were leaked. The leak was disclosed to the editors of Ars Technica.
Update 31-01 (Erik van Klinken): It is now k... Read more