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Facebook Owner Meta Fined $100M Over Password Security Lapse

An Irish regulatory agency said the tech company failed to properly protect users' passwords.

International Business Times

Europe tackles Google's AI after crackdowns on Meta and X

Google may be in trouble over the rollout of its PaLM 2 large language model last year.

Fortune

Ireland Launches EU Privacy Probe Into Google AI Development

An Irish regulator helping to police European Union data privacy on Thursday launched an investigation into Google's artificial intelligence development.

International Business Times

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Ireland launches privacy inquiry into Google AI data use in EU

Ireland's Data Protection Commission is launching an inquiry into Google's Pathways Language Model 2, after the regulator took wins against Meta and X.

Fortune

X Vows To End Harvesting Of EU Users' Personal Data To Train Its AI

Social network X has committed to stop its much-criticised harvesting of European users' personal data to train its artificial intelligence program, Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Wednesday.

International Business Times

Elon Musk’s X could lose 4% of its global annual turnover for "quietly" training Grok using data from 60 million users in the EU without consent

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) could fine X up to 4% of its global annual turnover if the platform can't establish a legal basis for using users' data to train its chatbot without their consent.

Windows Central

X Halts Using Personal Data Of Europeans To Train AI

Social platform X said Friday it would work European regulators after agreeing to suspended its heavily criticised use of European users' personal data to train its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok.

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Elon Musk’s X under pressure from regulators over data harvesting for Grok AI

Social media platform uses pre-ticked boxes of consent, a practice that violates UK and EU GDPR rules

The Guardian - UK

Victoria’s scrapped 2026 Commonwealth Games cost $589m in ‘significant waste of taxpayer money’, auditor general says

Report criticises government agencies for not working together and says the estimated $6.9bn cost of the event was ‘overstated’

The Guardian - AU

Labour union demands shifting of paddy bags from DPCs in Kumbakonam and Thiruvidaimaruthur to Thanjavur

The TNCSC Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh has drawn the attention of the Thanjavur district administration to the non-transfer of paddy bags from the direct procurement centres (DPC) in Kumbakonam and Thiruvidaimaruthur taluks to Thanjavur

The Hindu

White House will launch new national strategy to counter Islamophobia

The plan to develop a new national strategy against Islamophobia comes amid hightened tensions from the ongoing war between Israel and the militant group Hamas

The Independent UK

Jacinta Allan warned about rising cost of Commonwealth Games months before it was cancelled

Parliamentary inquiry hears organising committee wrote to the then games minister in April about additional funding and reducing costs

The Guardian - AU

Victorian government hired lawyers weeks before Commonwealth Games cancellation

Law firm was engaged well before cabinet decision to cancel 2026 event, but Jacinta Allan says it came amid rising cost estimates

The Guardian - AU

TikTok fined €345m for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts

Irish data regulator says platform put 13- to 17-year-old users’ accounts on default public setting, among other breaches

The Guardian - UK

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The Hindu

Ahead of Sornavari paddy harvest, 17 direct procurement centres opened in Tiruvallur to help farmers

Tiruvallur district in Chennai recently opened 17 DPCs to prepare for paddy harvest. 25,203 hectares of land estimated to yield 1.67 lakh tonnes of rice. 50,000 tonnes to reach DPCs, 50,000 to farmers, 50,000 to private buyers. Farmers to get ₹21.60/kg for fine varieties, ₹21.5/kg for mota. Special teams formed…

The Hindu

Appoint Principals from DPC selection list in two weeks, KAT directs Kerala government

Fortune

Google brings Bard A.I. to Europe and Brazil—and teaches it to talk

Privacy regulators' concerns are soothed, for now.

Fortune

Privacy activists outraged by Irish confidentiality move

A new law could stop activists from commenting on cases that are underway.

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The Guardian - AU

Google says Australia’s online privacy law should target websites instead of search engines

As country considers ‘right to be forgotten’, firm says it would be more effective to create legal obligations for sites hosting information

The Hindu

Stray dog menace: seven more ABC centres to be opened in Kannur

The decision came in the wake of stray dogs mauling to death an 11-year-old boy at Muzhappilangad recently and the growing dog menace in the district.

The Guardian - UK

Discrimination is a bigger AI risk than human extinction – EU commissioner

Commissioner says existential threat unlikely, but ‘guardrails’ needed for decisions affecting livelihoods

Wales Online

NHS trusts accused of handing over private patient information to Facebook

Probe by newspaper found a covert tracking tool was being used by some trust websites

The Guardian - UK

TechScape: Warnings of a ‘splinternet’ were greatly exaggerated – until now

In this week’s newsletter: Facebook has been hit with a €1.2bn fine by EU regulators, and the cracks in the fault lines of data regulations are showing. Could that be a good thing?

Fortune

Is Meta history in Europe?

There are only four options for how Meta's future in Europe could play out.

Al Jazeera

Meta fined $1.3bn over transfer of EU user data to the US

Facebook, Instagram owner says ruling ‘flawed, unjustified, sets a dangerous precedent for countless other companies’.

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