EU rules reining in Big Tech will now target cloud services and AI, regulators sayThe European Union is expanding its Digital Markets Act to cover cloud and artificial intelligence services. This move aims to ensure faire...
28 Apr, 2026, 11.09 PM IST
IAMAI sees ‘overreach’ in NHRC’s notice to MeitY over AI companies' DPDP breachesThe Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has written to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), voicing...
01 Apr, 2026, 09.37 AM IST
Microsoft ordered to stop tracking school childrenAustria's data protection authority has ordered Microsoft to stop the use of tracking cookies in education software, a privacy campaign gro...
27 Jan, 2026, 05.56 PM IST
EU vs Big Tech: the cases keep mountingEuropean regulators have launched a series of probes into Big Tech. In the latest move, the European Commission asked Amazon for more infor...
07 Jul, 2024, 08.26 PM IST
Microsoft hit with Austrian privacy complaints over its education programmePrivacy advocacy group NOYB files complaints against Microsoft regarding its online education software, alleging GDPR violations.
04 Jun, 2024, 11.12 AM IST
OpenAI's ChatGPT targeted in Austrian privacy complaintChatGPT, which kickstarted the GenAI boom in late 2022, can mimic human conversation and perform tasks such as creating summaries of long t...
29 Apr, 2024, 11.16 AM IST
EU Commission's use of Microsoft software breached privacy rules: watchdogThe European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) ordered the Commission to take measures to comply with privacy rules and to halt data transf...
12 Mar, 2024, 12.54 PM IST
EU Commission's use of Microsoft software breached privacy rules, watchdog saysThe European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) ordered the Commission to take measures to comply with privacy rules and to halt data transf...
11 Mar, 2024, 08.35 PM IST
Italy watchdog says OpenAI's ChatGPT breaches privacy rulesThe Italian watchdog, known as Garante - one of the European Union's most proactive in assessing AI platform compliance with the bloc's dat...
29 Jan, 2024, 04.42 PM IST
Microsoft offers to store all personal data of cloud customers in EUMicrosoft said on Thursday its European Union cloud customers would be able to process and store all personal data in the region as part of...
11 Jan, 2024, 03.47 PM IST
Microsoft to roll out 'data boundary' for EU customers from Jan 1Big businesses have become increasingly anxious about the international flow of customer data since the EU introduced the General Data Prot...
15 Dec, 2022, 11.21 AM IST
US court may snatch privacy rights on Facebook, Google dataCountry may have right to access info stored on foreign servers if they belong to US companies.
16 Feb, 2017, 01.42 PM IST
Does US have the rights to all your Google & FB data?If Magistrate Thomas Rueter's ruling stands, anyone using US-based internet companies will have to live with the knowledge that, as far as ...
09 Feb, 2017, 09.13 AM IST
Rules need to catch up with tech to protect privacy: MicrosoftExpressing concern over governments demanding access consumer data, software giant Microsoft said regulations have to keep pace with techno...
18 Feb, 2016, 08.16 PM IST
Americans debate Amazon intent to deliver packages by drones"Before drones start delivering packages, we need the FAA to deliver privacy protections for the American public," US Senator, Ed Markey, s...
03 Dec, 2013, 01.08 PM IST
- EU's web privacy law on cookies may trigger legal confusion
EU data privacy rules forcing companies such as Google Inc. and Yahoo! to seek consent before targeting users with online advertising may s...
25 May, 2011, 01.21 AM IST
- EU clears Google to buy DoubleClick
The European Union said the deal worth $3.1 bn, announced 11 months ago, won't curb competition in the online advertising arena. Serena Wil...
12 Mar, 2008, 12.06 AM IST