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Fred Byrne

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Fred Byrne

    AI chatbots turn users’ most intimate data into a potential goldmine for advertisers, researchers warn (opens the original)

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    Six out of nine of the most popular AI chatbots routinely exposed user input to third parties, new European research reveals. Multiple chatbots disclosed sensitive user data to advertising companies through trackers – a piece of code used to identify and target users on the web with customised advertisements, which are widely used across the web. And tech companies may have been able to link conversation summaries with personal identifiers, allowing users to be targeted based on their conversati

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Fred Byrne

    EU states urged to ‘go beyond’ AI Act to protect people from abusive surveillance (opens the original)

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    As AI-powered biometric identification is adopted by police, national authorities should go beyond legal requirements to build trust within the public, the EIU has advised. “To build public trust, law enforcement should publish the results of their fundamental rights impact assessments, going beyond what the AI Act requires,” said the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), an EU branch which keeps tabs on citizens’ freedoms, in Vienna on Wednesday (30 September). After collecting data from seven EU co

  3. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Fred Byrne

    Protesters in Brussels press EU on ‘broken promises’ over caged animals (opens the original)

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    The European Commission is being pressed to deliver an animal cage ban by 2027 after failing to meet previous commitments. Several hundred animal rights activists gathered at the EU’s office for health and food safety in Brussels on Monday (28 September) to encourage a ban on poultry cages and on the killing of male chicks. The commission’s livestock strategy had committed in July to proposing legislation to outlaw the two practices by the end of 2026, with similar legislation on pig welfare exp

  4. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Fred Byrne

    EU data chief adds voice to unions’ fears of ‘carte blanche’ use of workers’ data for AI (opens the original)

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    EU data protection chief Wojciech Wiewiórowski has joined trade unions and privacy activists in their concerns over the bloc’s ‘Digital Omnibus’ — which includes amendments to EU privacy rules that may allow data harvesting from workers without their permission to feed AI models. “When it comes to processing of personal data in the context of the development and deployment of AI, I am very concerned that the text would remove all references to additional safeguards from the article in question,

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