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Malta is in breach of the EU Treaties — the IDPC has confirmed in writing that no Maltese citizen is protected under the ePrivacy Directive against any tech company not established in Malta

Maltese privacy regulator has admitted in writing that they can not protect citizens from Big Tech due to Malta's failure to implement EU law correctly.

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u/ThatPrivacyShow — 5 days ago

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Google removes privacy assurance from Chrome after stuffing millions of devices with their own AI Model

So, it seems that Google are no longer willing to pretend that their "on device" AI keeps everything "on device". In the latest version of Chrome they remove the privacy assurances that the model will not send any data back to their servers - creating further breaches of consumer protection law across the EU and the US.

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u/ThatPrivacyShow — 6 days ago

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Whilst testing a SaaS product I have been building, I discovered that Google is illegally pushing its Gemini Nano model to users' devices (I am a lawyer specialised in the specific laws in question).

u/ThatPrivacyShow — 10 days ago