The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is investigating TikTok, Reddit and Imgur to find out whether UK teen and children’s data is being suitably protected. This is part of ongoing investigation into how individual social media and video sharing platforms handle youth data and has resulted in specific changes at X, SendIt, Viber among others, to location data tracking, data sharing, and ad targeting practices.
France is strengthening data protection in telemedicine via new regulations that received CNIL approval. This will include mandatory predictive impact assessments.
This comes as Musk’s xAI introduced Grok-3, the latest iteration of its chatbot.
Preliminary findings by the European Commission state that Apple and Google are in violation of the EU’s Digital Markets Act. Among the findings, Google Search is accused of prioritizing Google’s own products and services in results; Apple is instructed to improve interoperability between iOS and third-party devices. The companies now have an opportunity to respond.