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The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) fined Clearview AI €30.5 million on Tuesday (3 September), for illegally building a database with over 30 billion photos.
Resistance to the Hungarian presidency's approach to the EU's draft law to combat online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) was still palpable during a member states' meeting on Wednesday (4 September).
By: Théophane Hartmann, Jacob Wulff Wold, Eliza Gkritsi
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Google's anti-competitive advertising practices are harming UK publishers and advertisers, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found on Friday (6 September), amid similar investigations in the EU and US over the company's monopolistic behaviour in search and ad markets.
By: Julia Tar
A new compromise text sent by the Hungarian Presidency of the EU Council to delegations about the draft law to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM), focuses on known material, possibly lessening concerns around the regulations' privacy implications.
Despite the conclusion of the Irish Data Protection Commission's (DPC) court proceedings against social media platform X, questions about its
By: Julia Tar
Google's efforts to fully comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) remains insufficient, travel and hospitality organisations attending two European Commission workshops this week, told Euractiv.
Adult industry stakeholders are looking to influence artificial intelligence (AI) regulations to protect content creators' rights amid emerging issues like AI-generated pornography, deepfakes, and age verification challenges.
The European Commission will formally specify steps that Apple needs to take to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) around its interoperability with other products, the EU executive announced on Thursday (19 September).
By: Julia Tar
The review focused on three key directives: The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, the Consumer Rights Directive and the Unfair Contract Terms Directive.
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