Information privacy

It was not only former New Democracy MEP Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou who, ahead of the European elections last June, sent mass emails to Greek expatriates after a data leak from the Ministry of Interior’s emigrants’ registry.

It was not only former ND MEP Anna Michelle Asimakopoulou, who in the run-up to last June’s European elections sent mass e-mails from her office to Greek expatriates after they had previously been leaked from the Ministry of Interior’s expatriate archive.

New Democracy plans to appeal to Greece's highest administrative court, the Council of State, after being fined 40,000 euros by the Personal Data Protection Authority (PDPA) in connection with the "email-gate" scandal, party sources disclosed on Tuesday.

The Council of State, Greece's supreme administrative court, has rejected two appeals filed by Intellexa, a company selling Predator tracking software, against the Personal Data Protection Authority over a hefty fine imposed for the company's failure to cooperate with an audit. 

Former New Democracy MEP Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou has appealed a €40,000 fine imposed by the Data Protection Authority over the "email-gate" controversy.

The case involves allegations of unauthorized access to expatriate Greek voters' data before the 2024 European elections.

A group of companies including Meta and Spotify blasted the European Union yesterday for its "fragmented and inconsistent" decision-making on data privacy and artificial intelligence (AI).

The firms along with several researchers and industry bodies signed an open letter claiming that Europe was already becoming less competitive and risked falling further behind in the age of AI.

Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu has dismissed media reports claiming that the personal data of millions of people had been stolen.

"There is currently no issue in Türkiye regarding data theft," Uraloğlu told reporters on Sept. 16 in the capital Ankara.

European Union regulators said on Thursday they're looking into one of Google's artificial intelligence models over concerns about its compliance with the bloc's strict data privacy rules.

Ireland's Data Protection Commission said it has opened an inquiry into Google's Pathways Language Model 2, also known as PaLM2.

The Dutch data protection watchdog said on Monday it hit ride-hailing app Uber with a 290-million-euro ($324 million) fine over the transfer of personal data of European drivers to U.S. servers.

The regulator said the transfers were a "serious violation" of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as they failed to appropriately protect driver information.

A privacy organization based in Vienna has lodged complaints against Elon Musk's "X" social network in eight European countries. The complaints, filed by the European Digital Rights Center, also known as Noyb ("None of Your Business"), accuse "X" (formerly "Twitter) of unlawfully using users' personal data for its artificial intelligence technology without obtaining consent.