- Apple hits out at Meta over DMA interoperability mandate: The iOS-owner alleged that Meta has made the highest number of interoperability requests under the DMAās rules. Earlier this year, the European Commission designated Appleās iPadOS and iOS as a āgatekeepersā under its Digital Markets Act (DMA).
- Meta fined $263M over 2018 security breach that affected ~3M EU Facebook users: Meta has been fined ā¬251 million (around $263 million) in the European Union for a Facebook security breach that affected millions of users, which the company disclosed back in September 2018.
- Five years later, Netflix hit with Dutch data access fine: Five years later sounds like a half-baked sequel to a well-known zombie flick franchise. But itās a reference to how long itās taken a data access complaint against Netflix to deliver a penalty decision in the European Union.
- EU privacy body weighs in on some tricky GenAI lawfulness questions: The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published an opinion on Wednesday that explores how AI developers might use personal data to develop and deploy AI models, such as large language models (LLMs), without falling foul of the blocās privacy laws.
- Congress Again Fails to Limit Scope of Spy Powers in New Defense Bill: The National Defense Authorization Act was passed, but lawmakers stripped language that would keep the Trump administration from wielding unprecedented authority to surveil Americans.