The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Reddit £14.47 million (over $19.5 million) for collecting and using the personal information of children under 13 without adequate safeguards.

Britain’s privacy watchdog fines Reddit nearly $20 million for unlawfully collecting and using children’s personal data.

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Microsoft’s deleted Harry Potter AI blog highlights the messy ethics of training large language models on pirated content.

Federal court filings lay out what prosecutors say was a years‑long conspiracy tied to Plymouth‑Canton Educational Park, where three former students are accused of conspiring to steal “personal, ...