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.
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Qualcomm avoids billion-euro fine, antitrust saga ends
Qualcomm avoids an antitrust fine of nearly €1 billion. The fine was recently cancelled, but the European C...
White House presents principles to reform big tech
The White House presented six principles for reforming big tech platforms, saying it was heartened by a bipar...
Google allegedly pays billions to maintain its dominant position
The US Department of Justice told a federal judge that Alphabet’s Google annually pays billions of dollars ...
AWS never talks about sovereign cloud, but definitely has it, says Amazon CSO
Amazon CSO Stephen Schmidt: "Sovereign cloud is a marketing term more than anything else." AWS obviously s...
‘European Council threatens the future of artificial intelligence’
The European Council wants to regulate the development of open-source artifical intelligence, but researchers...
Irish regulator slaps Meta with €405 million fine
The Irish data protection authority fined Meta with €405 million for GDPR violations on Instagram. The ...
ACM wants to require cloud providers to integrate with competitors
The Dutch Consumer & Market Authority (ACM) wants to require cloud providers to help customers use multip...
FTC investigates Amazon’s acquisition of One Medical
Amazon wants to acquire One Medical for $3.9 billion, but the FTC is investigating the deal before agreeing t...
US bans Nvidia and AMD from exporting high-end chips to China
The US government ordered Nvidia and AMD to stop exporting high-end AI processors to China. The government wa...
Human Rights Board warns of discriminatory LinkedIn algorithms
The Dutch College for Human Rights warns against the use of algorithms for LinkedIn and job board recruitment...