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Irish DPC fines Meta €91m for password storage failures
Meta Ireland stored social media users passwords in ‘plaintext’ without encryption.
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Electricity and gas firm fined €5m for unsolicited contacts and using old data
More than 2,300 customers were contacted, with some ‘relationships on paper’ endorsed with false signatures.
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Cegedim Santé fined €800,000 for processing health data unlawfully
The data was found to be pseudonymous – not anonymous – making it possible to re-identify the people concerned.
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X could face sanctions for training Grok on Europeans’ data
The Irish Data Protection Commission has said that it will “examine” complaints received.
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Dutch DPA imposes €30.5m fine on Clearview AI over illegal data collection
The Dutch regulator found Clearview illegally built a database of over 30 billion faces without consent.
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NOYB urges regulators to stop Meta’s use of personal data for AI
Action is needed to stop Meta’s unilateral actions before the processing of users’ data is possible later this month.
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Irish data watchdog reveals 20% increase in data cases handled in 2023
The DPC reports a busy year with increasing cases and GDPR breaches, and a record fine on Meta.
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EU taskforce reports on tackling ChatGPT privacy challenges
But there are still more questions than answers over regulation of large language models.