Meta Platforms (META. O) has ordered it to pay a fine of 21.62 billion won (about $15.67 million) for collecting sensitive user data and providing it to advertisers without a legal basis, the country's Personal Information Protection Commission said in a statement on Tuesday. Meta collected information about about 980,000 South Korean Facebook users on issues such as religion, political views and sexual orientation without their consent. The information was then used by about 4,000 advertisers. ...
Following a court hearing in Ireland, the European Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Elon Musk's social media platform X has agreed to stop collecting and processing user data in the European Union. It is reported that the X platform has agreed to stop processing personal data contained in public posts of its European Union/European Economic Area users between May 7, 2024 and August 1, 2024 for the purpose of training its artificial intelligence Grok.
Social media platform X is under review by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) following widespread reports that a change in default settings allowed users X data to be fed into the training of artificial intelligence chatbot Grok. Recently, DPC told TechCrunch: "DPC has been in contact with X about this matter for several months, and the most recent interaction took place yesterday. Therefore, we are surprised by the current development. We have followed up with X today and are waiting f...