SypherPrivacyTalks - June 2024 - Week 23
by Sypher | Published in News - June 03, 2024
Welcome to #SypherPrivacyTalks — Your news and article roundup. Bringing you the top privacy & compliance stories of the week.
Spain bans Meta from launching election features on Facebook, Instagram over privacy fears
🚫 Meta has been banned from launching features on Facebook and Instagram that would collect data on voters using the social networks ahead of the European elections in June.
The local data protection authority, the AEPD, has used emergency powers to protect the privacy of local users … read more
EU GDPR Turns Six: Reflecting on a Global Privacy Benchmark
itsecurityguru.org • 4 min read
⭐ The EU's flagship data protection law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), celebrated its sixth anniversary on 25 May '24.
Since coming into force in 2018, its stringent requirements for enhanced security controls and data privacy have consistently raised awareness of the issues surrounding the storage and processing of personal data.
Over the past six years, €4.5 billion has been paid in fines for GDPR breaches… read more
US: Google to honour new privacy laws and user opt-outs
searchengineland.com • 2 min read
🇺🇸 Google will enable restricted data processing and respect user opt-outs via Global Privacy Controls signals in light of new state laws in the US.
Google is rolling out changes to comply with new state privacy laws and user opt-out preferences in its ads and analytics products in 2024... read more
EU ChatGPT Taskforce: a road to GDPR enforcement on AI?
🤖 The EU Data Protection Board set up a ChatGPT taskforce in April last year, which has published its preliminary findings from the EU's year-long investigation.
The main takeaway: the AI giant continues to jeopardise EU citizens' rights to privacy and data accuracy under the GDPR… read more
Meta will soon use your public posts to train its AI. Can you prevent it?
🚨 A new message has appeared for European users of Instagram and Facebook mobile applications, informing them that their public posts could be used to train artificial intelligence (AI) starting 26 June.
The information used could include posts, photos, captions and messages, but not the content of private messages… read more
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