Canada women’s soccer coach ‘approved’ illegal filming

Canadian women’s soccer team coach Bev Priestman will not be back after an independent report into the drone spying scandal at the 2024 Summer Olympics found that Priestman and an assistant coach “directed, approved and condoned” the actions used to film opposing teams’ training sessions.  Canada Soccer revealed the findings of the report on Tuesday,…

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Chinese online retailer Temu faces European Union investigation into rogue traders and illegal goods

LONDON — Chinese online retailer Temu is facing a European Union investigation over suspicions it’s failing to prevent the sale of illegal products, the 27-nation bloc’s executive arm said on Thursday. The European Commission opened its investigation five months after adding Temu to the list of “very large online platforms” needing the strictest level of…

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Indonesia arrests a fugitive former Filipino town mayor wanted for illegal online gaming scams

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A dismissed town mayor who fled the Philippines after being accused of helping establish an illegal online gaming and scam center catering mostly to clients in China has been arrested near Indonesia’s capital, officials said Wednesday. Indonesian authorities arrested Alice Guo at a house in Jakarta’s satellite city of Tangerang just before…

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Clearview AI fined $33.7 million by Dutch data protection watchdog over ‘illegal database’ of faces

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch data protection watchdog on Tuesday issued facial recognition startup Clearview AI with a fine of 30.5 million euros ($33.7 million) over its creation of what the agency called an “illegal database” of billion of photos of faces. The Netherlands’ Data Protection Agency, or DPA, also warned Dutch companies that…

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