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The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) issued guiding principles for generative artificial intelligence use in consumer-facing applications to safeguard end-users. The HKMA, Hong Kong’s central banking institution, introduced reforms to its preexisting four pillars of guidance on the use of generative AI (GenAI) in a circular issued to authorized institutions, mainly comprised of banks. The new principles were added to the four central pillars — governance and accountability, fairness, transparency and disclosure and data privacy and protection — initially introduced for big data analytics an...
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During his mandate, Breyer was a prominent voice against the controversial Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) regulation, also known as “chat control”, and played a key role in the reform of the EU’s e-Privacy regulations—critical to safeguarding online privacy. Breyer – who has a track record of challenging both Germany and the EU Commission with lawsuits over data retention - said he will continue fighting for digital rights, in parallel with his work as a civil law judge in his native Germany. Euronews: For readers who might be unfamiliar, could you explain what the Pirate Party stands for?...
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An Austrian non-profit is filing nine complaints against Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) company for breaching the EU’s data privacy regulations. In July, users on X, Musk’s social media platform, noticed that a data setting was recently changed so that public posts could be used to train Grok AI, Musk’s answer to OpenAI. The European Centre for Digital Rights (styled as NOYB for ‘None of your business’) alleges that X made the change “unlawfully” to collect the data of more than 60 million X users in the EU. “Twitter (X) is the next US company to just suck up EU users’ data to train ...
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The EU today (25 July) concluded negotiations with Singapore on a new Digital Trade Agreement designed to increase online trade, help SMEs with digital transformation and facilitate data flows. The deal was announced following talks in Brussels by Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis and Singapore’s Minister for Trade Relations Grace Fu and complements the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement which came into effect in 2019. Following five rounds of negotiations between Brussels and Singapore, both parties have agreed to implement various measures to enhance cooperation in digital trade; the agre...
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EU ambassadors meeting in Brussels today (20 June) delayed discussions over controversial wording of a regulation to protect children online off the table today since it was clear there was not enough agreement among member states to advance the proposal, according to an EU Council source. The wording proposed using so called 'upload moderation' to compel encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp and Messenger to include surveillance technology that would scan all users' images. For more details on the upload moderation, see Euronews previous article here. To be accepted, the proposal woul...
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US President Joe Biden renewed a section of the US surveillance framework in April, extending by two years the authorisation to monitor and collect data without warrants from non-Americans across the world, including Europeans. The renewed section 702 of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), was first introduced in 2008 to adapt to “the evolution of technology” and target individuals outside the US, according to a briefing by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Section 702 provided the legal basis for the NSA’s international mass surveillance programme PRISM, ...
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From Clue and Flo to Premom and Stardust, there are many popular applications women use to monitor their health by tracking information such as their periods, ovulation cycles, and sexual activity. But are female health apps protecting this sensitive data? A team of researchers in the UK found “problematic practices, including inconsistencies” regarding data privacy in several female health apps. They presented the research at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Honolulu, Hawaii in the US this month. The researchers analysed 20 popular female health apps available on the US...
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The Irish data protection authority, responsible for implementing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) issued privacy fines totalling €1.55 billion in 2023, a record since the GDPR came into force in 2018, it said in its activity report published yesterday (29 May). Chinese-owned social network TikTok was fined €345m in September 2023 for mishandling the personal data of users aged under 18. The investigation found problems with default public settings, parental controls, and age verification. In 2021, the Dutch Data Protection Authority and the British Information Commissioner’s Offi...
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The workplace communication platform Slack clarified how it uses customer data this month after social media users alleged it had an obscure policy. Slack is a popular cloud-based software owned by the US tech giant Salesforce. Its use rose during the COVID-19 pandemic as many people began remote working.Criticism against Slack this month began when a user posted his surprise regarding Slack's privacy principles which state that "systems analyse customer data (e.g. messages, content, and files) submitted to Slack as well as other information (including usage information)" to develop non-genera...
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By BOOM Team The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) on Friday released the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022, that seeks to outline the rights of individuals when it comes to sharing their data and the legal use of such data by companies. This comes months afterthe government withdrew the controversial Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 in August this year. It was withdrawn on recommendations by the Joint Committee of Parliament amid severe scrutiny and criticism. The government said that with the current draft bill, citizens can make suggestions and provide feedback. It sai...
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