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Google loses the first round in its fight to overturn record-breaking EU fine
Google loses appeal over record EU anti-trust Android fine
Amplify Energy to pay $4.9M fine to California govt to settle charges over oil spill
Instagram hit by record $400M fine in Europe for mishandling children’s data
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Instagram will receive a significant fine by the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), the Irish independent national authority responsible for upholding privacy and other fundamental digital rights in the European Union as stated by the GDPR regulation. Meta’s social network has to pay more than $400 million for how the company…
Meta faces $402 million EU fine over Instagram’s privacy settings for children
Meta has been fined €405 million ($402 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission for its handling of children’s privacy settings on Instagram, which violated Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As Politico reports, it’s the second-largest fine to come out of Europe’s GDPR laws, and the third (and largest) fine levied against Meta by the regulator.
A spokesperson for the DPC confirmed the fine, and said additional details about the decision would be available next week. The fine stems from the photo sharing app’s privacy settings on accounts run by children. The DPC had been investigating Instagram over children’s use of business accounts, which made personal data like email addresses and phone numbers publicly visible. The investigation also covered Instagram’s policy of defaulting all new accounts, including teens, to be publicly viewable.
“This inquiry focused on old settings that we updated over a year ago, and we’ve since released many new features to help keep teens safe and their information private,” a Meta spokesperson told Politico in a statement. “Anyone under 18 automatically has their account set to private when they join Instagram, so only people they know can see what they post, and adults can’t message teens who don’t follow them. We engaged fully with the DPC throughout their inquiry, and we’re carefully reviewing their final decision.”
The fine, which Meta could still appeal, comes as Instagram has faced intense scrutiny over its handling of child safety issues. The company halted work on an Instagram Kids app last year following a whistleblower’s claims that meta ignored its own research indicating the app can have a negative impact on some teens’ mental health. Since then, the app has added more safety features, including changing default settings on teen accounts to private.
Updated with additional details from the DPC.
AI-Generated Artwork Wins First Place At a State Fair Fine Arts Competition
But Allen did not paint “Theatre D’opera Spatial,” AI software called Midjourney did. It used his prompts, but Allen did not wield a digital brush. This distinction has caused controversy on Twitter where working artists and enthusiasts accused Allen of hastening the death of creative jobs. “TL;DR — Someone entered an art competition with an AI-generated piece and won the first prize,” artist Genel Jumalon said in a viral tweet about Allen’s win. “Yeah that’s pretty fucking shitty.” “We’re watching the death of artistry unfold before our eyes,” a Twitter user going by OmniMorpho said in a reply that gained over 2,000 likes. “If creative jobs aren’t safe from machines, then even high-skilled jobs are in danger of becoming obsolete. What will we have then?” “I knew this would be controversial,” Allen said in the Midjourney Discord server on Tuesday. “How interesting is it to see how all these people on Twitter who are against AI generated art are the first ones to throw the human under the bus by discrediting the human element! Does this seem hypocritical to you guys?”
He added: “I have been exploring a special prompt that I will be publishing at a later date, I have created 100s of images using it, and after many weeks of fine tuning and curating my gens, I chose my top 3 and had them printed on canvas after unshackling with Gigapixel AI,” he wrote in a post before the winners were announced.
“What if we looked at it from the other extreme, what if an artist made a wildly difficult and complicated series of restraints in order to create a piece, say, they made their art while hanging upside-down and being whipped while painting,” he said. “Should this artist’s work be evaluated differently than another artist that created the same piece ‘normally’? I know what will become of this in the end, they are simply going to create an ‘artificial intelligence art’ category I imagine for things like this.”
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Cult of the Lamb animals want to eat poo, and that’s fine
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The Cult of the Lamb poo fascination is an odd one, and it’s yet another quirk that marks the title as one of 2022’s best roguelike games. Turns out that there’s some scientific proof in your cultists’ obsession with all things ew, meaning that Devolver have actually done a pretty good job of showing off what it would be like to lead an animal army.
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A Chat with Caroline Chalmer, CEO and Founder at Global Fine Jewellery Platform: Finematter
Finematter is a global fine jewellery platform, building a new vision for the jewellery industry and connecting over 60 of…
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