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Ireland's national privacy regulator and lead EU GDPR enforcer against major tech firms based there, including Meta, TikTok and Google.
Ireland's DPC takes a median 6.2 years to decide a cross-border GDPR case, a LessWrong analysis finds. The AI Act gives the Commission five years from a violation to fine, and it requires the same investigation and response steps that take up most of the Irish cases.
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The DoJ split the payment, holding a quarter of it against the removal of a legacy consent decree, and credited TikTok's later fixes without discounting the bill for the earlier ones.
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Musical.ly paid $5.7mn in 2019 over the same statute. The DOJ's complaint treats registration-flow design as the violation, which makes age-gating a documented enforcement target.
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The Data Protection Commission's EUR 403m penalty, its fourth-largest under GDPR, covers 620 days of location processing that ended in February 2020. Against Alphabet's reported revenue that is about 0.15 percent.
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Ireland's Data Protection Commission found lawfulness, fairness and retention failures in Web & App Activity and Location History, and transparency failures in all three location features it examined. One of them runs for Android users who never signed in.
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A bankruptcy auction put a dead airline's internal chat in front of Gemini, and the flight attendants' union has stalled it by arguing that deidentification standards cover consumers only. SpaceX is reportedly looking for similar data.
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British filings show the unit covering the UK, Europe and Latin America turned its first profit in the year TikTok was forced offline in America. Political risk was regional, not existential.
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