New Canadian privacy legislation would be sea change toward stronger enforcement
June 17, 2026
| Mike Swift
Canada's proposed Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, also known as Bill C-26, would transform the country's privacy enforcement landscape, replacing key parts of its current private-sector privacy law w... (more story)
Beside UK social media ban, platforms await design and feature restrictions
June 16, 2026
| Patricia Figueiredo
The UK's planned ban on social media platforms offering services to under-16s is the headline outcome of the government's recent child safety consultation. But accompanying documents tease a wider package of m... (more story)
US embargo reignites global sovereign AI push after Anthropic models shut down
June 15, 2026
| Emma Whitford, Freny Patel and Matthew Newman
The abrupt suspension of Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models is reigniting sovereign AI discussions around the globe, delivering a stark warning in India, Europe and elsewhere that reliance on foreign tech... (more story)
Former US DOJ prosecutor warns of antitrust focus on AI collusion, whistleblowers
June 12, 2026
| Khushita Vasant
Algorithmic collusion and anticompetitive conduct involving AI will be a key area of enforcement for the US Department of Justice over the next decade, and companies using these tools should be mindful of the ... (more story)
The new politics of data centers: US governors say build, but pay
June 12, 2026
| Amy Miller
Governors are increasingly abandoning state policies aimed at attracting new data centers powering the artificial intelligence industry as grassroots opposition to development builds across the US. In Texas, I... (more story)
US Third Circuit zeroes in on fair use, not copyrightability, in Ross appeal
June 11, 2026
| Melissa Ritti and Emma Whitford
Judges on the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit spent much of Thursday's oral argument probing whether Ross Intelligence built a market substitute for Westlaw and whether its use of Thomson Reuters’ co... (more story)
X petition could drive changes to 20-year US FTC consent orders
June 11, 2026
| Mike Swift
Claiming that 15 years of "onerous regulatory oversight is enough," X has asked the US Federal Trade Commission to terminate by the end of this year the 20-year privacy consent order it agreed to in 2022, befo... (more story)
US House AI proposal draws tepid congressional response
June 09, 2026
| Emma Whitford
In the days since its release, a US House proposal to manage artificial intelligence risks at the federal level and preempt certain state laws hasn't been embraced by leadership in its chamber of origin. Meanw... (more story)