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Campaigners claim that Google keeps non-GDPR compliant files on internet users’ ethnicity, health, ethnicity and sexual orientation Privacy campaigners have provided what they say is new evidence to back-up their claims that internet giant Google is not complying with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Google, however, has denied the new claims. The evidence backs up complaints originally filed to three data protection authorities across the EU in September, suggesting that Google and other online advertising auction companies “unlawfully profile internet users’ religious beliefs, ethnicities, diseases, disabilities, and sexual orientation”....

Image: We’re in the early days of generative AI, but the advancements are coming thick and fast Recently I visited the Tiptree Jam Museum, home of more spreadable sweetness than even the most wide-eyed child could handle. Middle age has arrived. But while I was (unexpectedly) enjoying the history of preserves, something else was washing around the back of my mind: how many people had been put out of business by technical advancements over the centuries the factory had been in operation....

Image: Google wants to remove bots from the web, but the technical community says its approach is “completely unethical" A working draft specification for a new browser API from Google has raised outcry from the technical community about ethics, trust and adding DRM to the internet. The Web Environment Integrity API (WEI) is not a heavily promoted project - the documentation is only hosted on an employee’s personal Github account , rather than an official repo - but there are signs that Google is actively working to build the feature into Chrome now....