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Meta’s first human rights report is largely self-congratulatory

Facebook moves to settle Cambridge Analytica lawsuit

August 29, 2022 Natasha Lomas 236 Viewscalifornia, Cambridge Analytica, donald trump, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, lawsuit, Litigation, Mark Zuckerberg, meta, privacy, Sheryl Sandberg, United States 3 min read

Can money buy privacy? Facebook’s parent, Meta, has proposed to settle a long-running privacy class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Reuters reported Friday — citing a court filing. The size of the proposed settlement has not been disclosed. Meta was contacted for comment but a spokesperson […]

Google faces fresh class action-style suit in UK over DeepMind NHS patient data scandal

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Google faces fresh class action-style suit in UK over DeepMind NHS patient data scandal

May 16, 2022 Natasha Lomas 241 Viewsartificial intelligence, DeepMind, DeepMind Technologies, Google, lawsuit, Litigation, medical data, misuse of private information, National Health Service, NHS, patient data, Royal Free NHS Trust, United Kingdom 6 min read

Google is facing a new class-action style lawsuit in the U.K. in relation to a health data scandal that broke back in 2016, when it emerged that its AI division, DeepMind, had been passed data on more than a million patients as part of an app development project by the Royal Free NHS Trust in […]

Meta’s first human rights report is largely self-congratulatory

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Europe’s top court unblocks more GDPR litigation against Big Tech

April 28, 2022 Natasha Lomas 243 ViewsBEUC, civil society, CJEU, consumer, consumer protection, data processing, data protection, digital rights, european union, General Data Protection Regulation, Germany, Google, human rights, Instagram, ireland, Litigation, noyb, privacy, Representative Actions Directive, vzbv 7 min read

A ruling by the European Union’s top court today is set to unblock a raft of litigation brought by consumer protection organizations seeking to apply the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) standard against tech giants such as Facebook and Twitter over issues like whether they gather properly informed consent to process people’s data. In […]