Nigeria Orders Investigation of Tech Giants Over Unauthorized Use of News for AI Training (heise.de)

• Nigeria to investigate Meta, Google, X for scraping news content for AI training.
• Data breach at US auto insurer AssuranceAmerica affects 6.99 million customers.
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"Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu directed the competition authority to investigate Google, Meta, and X for alleged anti-competitive practices, including unauthorized scraping of copyrighted news articles and broadcasts for training generative AI models. The probe follows a petition from Nigerian press representatives. Separately, US auto insurer AssuranceAmerica suffered a data breach, exposing driver's license data of 6.99 million customers."