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TikTok facing £27m fine for ‘failing to protect children’s privacy’

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The document sets out that between May 2018 and July 2020, TikTok may have processed the data of children under the age of 13 without appropriate parental consent; failed to provide proper information to its users in a concise, transparent and easily understood way; and processed 'special category' data without legal grounds to do so.

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Meta to settle Cambridge Analytica class-action lawsuit for $725m

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The proposed settlement would resolve a four-year-long lawsuit prompted by revelations in 2018 that Facebook had allowed the now-defunct British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to access the data of as many as 87 million users. These claims were dismissed by US District Judge Vince Chhabria.

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75 per cent of Irish data watchdog’s GDPR decisions overruled

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As Google, Meta, Apple, TikTok and Microsoft all have headquarters in Ireland, the Data Protection Commission is the lead authority investigating data privacy complaints about tech giants in Europe. Some 87 per cent of cross-border GDPR complaints to Ireland’s DPC also involve the same eight companies: Meta, Google, Airbnb, Yahoo!,

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Google agrees to pay $93m to settle location data lawsuit

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The lawsuit referred to instances between 2014 and 2018 in which Google used “deceptive prompts” to lead them to turn on location history. That’s unacceptable, and we’re holding Google accountable with today’s settlement.”

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Spain tops list of EU countries for number of GDPR fines issued

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The study, published by Proxyrack, looked at all the fines issued under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) since the laws were first established in the European Union in 2018.

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Teleperformance Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Helping Organizations Mitigate Security Breaches and Demonstrating an Industry-leading Competitive Strategy

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

Teleperformance continues to set the industry standard for global regulatory compliance, security, and privacy by way of its proprietary protocols and processes. The company has built an extremely strong internal framework to proactively identify and mitigate data breaches and combat fraud.

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Diversity must be at the heart of equitable AI development

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As I discuss in a forthcoming research paper , collecting sufficiently large, diverse datasets is very challenging, especially in sensitive contexts like human-centric computer vision where existing public datasets often suffer from diversity and privacy problems.