May 02, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Privacy / Social Media Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Friday fined popular video-sharing platform TikTok €530 million ($601 million) for infringing data protection regulations in the region by transferring European users’ data to China. “TikTok infringed the GDPR regarding its transfers of EEA [European Economic Area] User Data to China … Read more
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, talk to relatives of victims of the Argentine dictatorship during a ceremony at the Santa Cruz church in Buenos Aires, on November 17, 2024. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP On Sunday, November 17, the Santa Cruz church in Buenos Aires resounded with a collective “presente!” (“present!”), the … Read more
VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A federal agency said it has resumed sending hazardous waste to a Michigan landfill from Ohio while communities in suburban Detroit continue their legal fight to bar waste from a World War II-era site in New York. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been sending material from Luckey, … Read more