New AI Tips Off Regulators to Possible EU Data Privacy Faults

Some of the world's largest technology companies might be breaking the European Union's new data privacy law, according to an analysis of their policies conducted by artificial intelligence software. Researchers from the European Union Institute in Florence worked with the EU's consumer organization to create the software. They then used the software to examine the privacy policies of 14 major technology businesses, including by Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., and Facebook Inc. They found that a third of those clauses were "potentially problematic" or contained "insufficient information." Another 11 percent of the policy's sentences used unclear language, the academics said.