Clothilde Goujard

Sep 11, 2024 | politico.eu | Clothilde Goujard

The Irish privacy watchdog opened an investigation Thursday into one of Google's artificial intelligence systems, marking a new step in European regulators' escalating fight with tech firms over the development of new technology. The Irish Data Protection Commission said Google may not have evaluated how and if its gathering of Europeans' personal data to develop one of its AI models could threaten fundamental rights and freedoms.

Sep 4, 2024 | politico.eu | Antoaneta Roussi |Clothilde Goujard |Océane Herrero

France's high-stakes arrest of the chief executive of Telegram showed that European investigators aren't afraid to wield their full powers to stop the sexual abuse of children and drug trafficking online. But it was two other, less-noticed charges that have caused a ruckus across the tech sector: those charging CEO Pavel Durov for not working with French authorities in running his encrypted messaging tools. Durov faces a total of six charges, according to his Aug.

Aug 8, 2024 | flipboard.com | Clothilde Goujard

2 days agoAn American woman who was found chained to a tree "screaming" in a forest in the western Indian state of Maharashtra had shackled herself, police and her doctor have told the BBC. Lalita Kayi, 50, was rescued about 10 days ago from the dense forests of Sindhudurg district after her cries for help …

Aug 8, 2024 | politico.eu | Clothilde Goujard

X will pause training its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok with some European users' posts, according to Europe's chief privacy watchdog. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) today said the controversial social media platform had agreed to stop using millions of Europeans' public posts it had previously gathered from between May 7 and Aug. 1 to train its chatbot for now. X did not immediately reply to POLITICO's request to confirm the deal.

Aug 4, 2024 | politico.eu | Clothilde Goujard

TikTok will not roll out a feature rewarding screen time for European Union users, regulators said Monday — an early win for the EU as it starts cracking down on social media's online addiction risks. The popular, Chinese-owned social media platform will permanently withdraw a reward program in its TikTok Lite app in the EU, the European Commission said, as part of legally binding commitments the company is making under the bloc's new social media law, the Digital Services Act (DSA).