The Swedish Data Protection Authority (IMY) has issued a fine of 58M Swedish Crown (≈ €5M) to Spotify, for not fully complying with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The complaint lay dormant for several years until activist group noyb filed litigation against IMY over the lack of a decision.
You may recall that Meta is dead set against paying publishers whose links appear on its site. Coincidentally or not, the traffic from Facebook to such links has fallen by half in the past year, according to data from Echobox. It seems Meta is showing users more videos instead. All fine, but Reuters Institute reports that more people get news from social media than news sites and Facebook is still the most common social media news source, although its share is rapidly falling.
The complexity of regulating AI is a challenge everywhere, but the European Parliament has adopted its negotiating position on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act and is prepared to move ahead with rules to shape the law. Plans range from requiring disclosure of content (for generative systems, like ChatGPT) to full bans on biometric surveillance, emotion recognition and predictive policing.
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.