The U.K.’s competition watchdog has fined sportswear retailer JD Sports and sneaker seller Footasylum $6 million (4.6 million pounds) for sharing commercially sensitive information. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
The long running feud between the United Kingdom’s competition police and Google may have cooled. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter,...
Banks using artificial intelligence (AI) to approve loan applications have been warned by U.K. financial regulators that they can only deploy that technology if they can show it won’t be discriminatory towards minorities, the Financial Times reported Sunday (Feb. 13). Get the Full Story Complete...
France’s privacy overseer has told Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, that an unnamed website cannot use Google Analytics because it transfers personal information to the United States in breach of the European Union’s privacy law, the agency announced Thursday (Feb 10). Get the Full Story...
The rise of digital technologies has improved the world in untold ways. But there has been at least one casualty: privacy. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS...
Media regulators in the European Union (EU) are considering rules designed to end misinformation on Spotify, according to a report in Politico Thursday (Feb. 10). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), with Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Representative Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), introduced in early February the Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2022. This bill aims to bring transparency and oversight of software, algorithms and other automated systems that are used to make automated...
When Meta announced its quarterly results last week and warned about the strong competition that is facing from other companies like TikTok, the price of its shares plunged, wiping out $230 billions of market value. The biggest one-day loss in history. Get the Full Story...
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