Big Data
UN decries police use of racial profiling derived from Big Data
Authorities and border guards have to fight racial profiling and be sure that their usage of “big data” gathered via artificial intelligence does not reinforce biases a...
Apple, GroupM and others ask for tough protection for data in Google lawsuit
Apple Inc, advertising giant GroupM and many others requested that the judge hearing the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google on Friday to let them de...
Europe charges Amazon with using dominance and data to squeeze rivals
The European Union charged Amazon with damaging international competition within the retail space, alleging that the US tech titan uses its size, power and information to obtain an...
Irish regulator probes handling of children’s data on Instagram
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched two queries into Facebook after concerns were raised about the social system titans handling of children’s perso...
EU’s top court rules states must curb mass spying on data
The EU’s top court has ruled that uncontrolled mass surveillance of mobile and internet information is illegal, in a movement that could curb the powers of spying agencies in...
Microsoft Corp plans to build hub for cloud services in Greece
Microsoft is to construct a data centre hub in Greece as it erupts in cloud solutions infrastructure in the nation, a boon to an economy weakened by a decade-long debt crisis and t...
European Union drafts rules to force big tech to share data
The EU is preparing to force big technology companies to share their client information with smaller rivals, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing an early draft of its...
High court in Ireland freezes probe into Facebook’s EU-US data flows
The Republic of Ireland’s High Court has temporarily frozen a probe by Facebook’s lead European Union regulator which threatened to stop the US social network giantR...
Facebook pushes for data portability legislation
Facebook has pushed for legislation that makes it easier for users to transfer photos and videos to a rival technology platform, in comments it sent to the Federal Trade Commission...
Australian regulator sues Google over personal data use
Australia’s competition regulator has launched court proceedings against Google for allegedly misleading consumers about the enlarged use of private data for targeted adverti...
Google faces lawsuit over tracking in apps
Google records what people are doing on hundreds of thousands of mobile apps even when they follow the company’s recommended settings for stopping monitoring, a lawsuit seeki...
Google offers pledge on data in bid to win EU okay for Fitbit acquisition
Google has offered not to use health data of fitness tracker company Fitbit to help it target ads in an attempt to address EU antitrust concerns about its proposed $2.1 billion acq...
Google-backed groups criticise Apple’s new warnings on user tracking
A group of European digital advertising associations has criticised Apple plans to require apps to seek additional permission from users before tracking them across other apps and ...
European Union regulators checking if Fitbit deal will increase Google’s clout
European Union regulators are checking whether Google’s purchase of Fitbit might allow it to drive rival makers of wearable devices, app developers and other online service p...