The French regulator had imposed a €60 million fine against Microsoft for misleading cookie policies that made it difficult for Bing users to decline data collection.
In the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued updated guidance for edtech providers on what falls within the scope of the Children’s Code.
The PLAY ransom group has claimed responsibility.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.