Clothilde Goujard reports:
The Irish privacy watchdog opened an investigation Thursday into one of Google’s artificial intelligence systems, marking a new step in European regulators’ escalating fight with tech firms over the development of new technology.
The Irish Data Protection Commission said Google may not have evaluated how and if its gathering of Europeans’ personal data to develop one of its AI models could threaten fundamental rights and freedoms.
The potential violation of the European Union’s landmark privacy rulebook, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), may result in a multimillion-euro fine of up to 4 percent of Google’s global annual revenues.
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