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EU To Probe Apple, Google, Meta For Potential Digital Markets Breach

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EU To Probe Apple, Google, Meta For Potential Digital Markets Breach

The Commission also launched investigatory steps relating to Apple’s new fee structure Brussels: EU antitrust regulators on Monday opened their first investigations under the Digital Markets Act into Apple, Alphabet’s Google and Meta Platforms for potential breaches of the landmark EU tech rules. “The (European) Commission suspects that the measures put in place by these…

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Europe’s Digital Markets Act is forcing tech giants to make changes. Here’s what that will look like

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Europe’s Digital Markets Act is forcing tech giants to make changes. Here’s what that will look like

Europeans scrolling their phones and computers this week will get new choices for default browsers and search engines, where to download iPhone apps and how their personal online data is used. They’re a part of changes required under the Digital Markets Act, a set of European Union regulations that six tech companies classed as “gatekeepers”…

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Meta Forms Teams To Combat Disinformation, AI Abuse In EU Parliament Polls

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Meta Forms Teams To Combat Disinformation, AI Abuse In EU Parliament Polls

Meta currently works with 26 Independent fact-checking organisations across the EU Brussels: Facebook owner Meta will set up a team to tackle disinformation and the abuse of generative artificial intelligence in the run-up to European Parliament elections in June amid concerns about election interference and misleading AI-generated content. The rapid growth of generative AI, which…

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EU Regulator Bans Meta’s Use Of Personal Data For Targeted Advertising

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EU Regulator Bans Meta’s Use Of Personal Data For Targeted Advertising

The EDPD said it took the decision following a request from Norway’s data regulator. Brussels, Belgium: The European Data Protection Board said Wednesday it had adopted a binding decision that will result in Facebook and Instagram owner Meta being banned from using the personal data of users for targeted advertisements. The order will “impose a…

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Meta, Google quit tech summit over organizer’s Israel remarks

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Meta, Google quit tech summit over organizer’s Israel remarks

The logo for Meta (R) (formerly Facebook) and the Google logo. | Photo Credit: AFP Meta and Google have pulled out of the Web Summit, one of the tech sector’s biggest annual events, after the organizer criticized Israel’s actions following the Hamas attacks, the companies said on Friday. A spokesman for Meta confirmed to AFP…

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Facebook Introduces Measures To Limit “Unwanted” Comments

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Facebook Introduces Measures To Limit “Unwanted” Comments

The Israel-Hamas war started on October 7. Facebook parent Meta on Wednesday rolled out a temporary feature to limit “harmful and potentially harmful” content on the Israel-Hamas war. The change is part of the company’s efforts to protect people “in the region” from such “unwanted” comments, Meta said in an updated statement on Wednesday (October…

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INDIA Writes To Facebook, Google Chiefs, Demands Neutrality During Polls

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INDIA Writes To Facebook, Google Chiefs, Demands Neutrality During Polls

New Delhi: The Opposition INDIA bloc has written to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai over their social media platforms’ alleged role in “aiding communal hatred” in the country and demanded that the platforms maintain neutrality in the upcoming elections. The letters came after the Washington Post newspaper flagged alleged bias of…

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Tech Companies Using 183,000 Books To Train AI. The Problem is…

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Tech Companies Using 183,000 Books To Train AI. The Problem is…

The collection of books includes erotic fiction to prose poetry genres. (Representational Image) Nearly 200,000 books are being used by some of the biggest companies in technology to train their generative AI models, according to a report by The Atlantic. Books by famous authors including J.K. Rowling, Amitav Ghosh, Rupi Kaur, and Neil Gaiman are…

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Meta Plans To Charge Europeans For Ad Free Facebook, Instagram: Report

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Meta Plans To Charge Europeans For Ad Free Facebook, Instagram: Report

According to reports, Europe could pay $10.50 a month for a desktop version of Instagram or Facebook. Washington: Meta is proposing to offer European users a subscription-based version of Instagram and Facebook if they would rather not be tracked for ads, a source said on Tuesday. The idea, first reported by the Wall Street Journal,…

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