Here you will find all the articles with the tag: EU.
Meta is adjusting its policy around personalized advertising for EU users. This ends the imposition of personalized ads on users of the company's social media platforms. Users will be given a choice. Meta is changing the policy around personalized ads for EU users. The change is necessary to co... Read more
9 months ago
Chatbot Bard has a Privacy Hub in Europe. That allows users to keep their conversations with Bard out of the training set of machine learning technologies. Google released his chatbot Bard to the European public yesterday. TechCrunch then sought to find out why the chatbot is now allowed to com... Read more
9 months ago
Meta is quietly beginning to realize the state of the metaverse: "The metaverse hype is dead," says Vishal Shah, vice president of metaverse at Meta. But don't think we won't hear Zuckerberg and his team say another word about the metaverse. According to Shah, the time is now to actually build the ... Read more
9 months ago
Meta no longer has a legal basis to show its users personalized ads. This week, the European Union's Court of Justice ruled that the practices violate the GDPR. The ruling sets a precedent for more convictions on data collection by dominant players in the digital world On July 4, amid the celeb... Read more
10 months ago
Meta wants to open up Facebook ads to offer Android apps. Only Europeans will be able to use the service, once the Digital Markets Act democratizes app stores. Europe's Digital Markets Act is scheduled to launch in the spring of 2024. The law allows all players to offer apps. Thus, the law offe... Read more
10 months ago
EU Commissioner Thierry Breton visited Silicon Valley last week, reminding big tech names of EU regulations they must soon follow. The rules focus on social media content, AI and data. The situation is particularly volatile at Twitter, as the platform previously left the EU's voluntary code of cond... Read more
10 months ago
The EU is trying to combat the flow of disinformation from Russia with new rules for social media sites. This forces Google and Facebook, among others, to clearly label AI-generated posts. Social media will immediately be asked to flag posts and images created using AI. This should partially hel... Read more
11 months ago
The European Union's competition chief, Margrethe Vestager, has announced that the bloc's regulators will likely launch investigations into tax deals between EU countries and multinationals. This follows a review of the arrangements made in the previous decade. Vestager, who has previously order... Read more
1 year ago
The company is aiming to keep in line with latest EU regulations on data handling and storage. This week Microsoft announced that it is making changes to how diagnostic data from Windows devices is processed and controlled. Currently, to enroll devices in the Windows diagnostic data processo... Read more
1 year ago
EU countries agreed on draft artificial intelligence (AI) regulations ahead of negotiations with EU parliamentarians to iron out the kinks. However, according to the European Consumer Organization (BEUC) and opposing lawmakers, the countries failed to address facial recognition concerns. Last y... Read more
1 year ago
