GDPR
Ireland fines Meta $264 million over 2018 Facebook data breach
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta €251 million ($263.6M) over General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) violations arising from a 2018 personal data breach impacting 29 million Facebook accounts. The breach was caused by the exploitation of user access tokens by unauthorized parties, exposing sensitive user data such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical locations, […]
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X faces GDPR complaints for unauthorized use of data for AI training
European privacy advocate NOYB (None of Your Business) has filed nine GDPR complaints about X using the personal data from over 60 million users in Europe to train “Grok,” the social media company’s large language model. According to NOYB, X did not inform its users that their data was being used to train AI and did […]
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