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we begin in the us in what could become the largest product liability settlement in history. the pharmaceutical�*s giant, johnson &johnson has proposed paying almost $9 billion to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits that allege the companys talcum powders causes cancer. the new move seeks to resolve all current and future claims and follows a decade—long legal battle between plaintiffs�* lawyers and johnson & johnson. my colleague samira hussain with the details. johnson &johnso...

The owner of Facebook and Instagram has been fined one million crowns ($93,000) per day since Aug. 14, for three months, for breaching users privacy by harvesting user data and using it to target advertising at them.

The owner of Facebook and Instagram had sought a temporary injunction against the order from the Norwegian data regulator, Datatilsynet, which imposed a daily fine for three months.

Worldcoin has drawn criticism from privacy campaigners over its data collection. It has said the biometric data is either deleted or stored in encrypted form, and that it is "committed" to working with regulators.

Since August 14, Meta Platforms has been fined 1 million crowns ($94,313) per day for harvesting user data and using it to target advertising at them, called behavioural advertising, a practice common to Big Tech.

Whether it has to be independent or not independent is an extraneous debate, says Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology

Hoping to project european unity and what they want to do is persuade china to use its influence of russia to bring peace into ukraine or at least prevent beijing from directly supporting its ally because they have been accusations that china could be providing arms to which china denies. beijing has been on a charm offensive, trying to separate europe from america so america will be watching the trip closely. lets get some of the days other news: britains data regulator has fined short video pl...

Irelands data regulator hit Facebook owner Meta with a 265-million-euro ($275-million) fine after details of more than half a billion users were leaked on a hacking website.