PI responded to the ICO consultation on the legality of web scraping by AI developers when producing generative AI models such as LLMs. Developers are known to scrape enormous amounts of data from the web in order to train their models on different types of human-generated content. But data collection by AI web-scrapers can be indiscriminate and the outputs of generative AI models can be unpredictable and potentially harmful.
Our 2018 complaint against French AdTech company Criteo led to a €40 million fine for failing to ensure that data subjects had provided their consent to processing, to sufficiently inform them and to enable them to exercise their rights.
Following on from our initial reaction, we answer some questions about the decision below.
On 2 May and 5 June 2023, PI made a submission to the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the European Commission, respectively, in relation to the proposed merger between Amazon and iRobot, outlining the concerns the transaction raises for consumers and markets.
Privacy International joined a group of civil society organisations to respond to the European Commission’s Call for Evidenceon the forthcoming Guidelines on exclusionary abuses of dominance under Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).