Google pays $5.5m to settle Apple Safari privacy case
Class-action suit settled but consumers won't see a penny
Google has agreed to pay $5.5m for tracking Apple Safari users' web browsing habits in a data slurp that the company suggested was done by mistake. This is on top of other fines that the firm has already...
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More than 4 million households should be eligible for sub-half-price connectivity deals
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AI systems that pose a clear threat, including those that manipulate human behaviour, opinions or decisions or enable 'social scoring' will be prohibited under the guidelines
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If not, France will 'have to draw some conclusions about the European data protection framework'
Irish regulator opens GDPR inquiry into Facebook data leak
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