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US Congress sharpens scrutiny of content moderation decisions
As US lawmakers put Biden-era decisions about content moderation under a microscope, there are two emerging paths to confronting the critics: turn to community note... (more story)
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As Japan plays catchup in cybersecurity, a cultural reset must join legal reforms
At an annual Tokyo cybersecurity conference this week, international and Japanese experts agreed the world’s fourth-largest economy’s recent legal reforms are a ste... (more story)
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Meta warns of regulatory 'headwinds' in US, EU, losses from addictive-design cases
Even as Meta Platforms reported a record $51 billion in quarterly revenue Tuesday, the social media giant warned that a thicket of US trials it faces in 2026 over t... (more story)
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Next year will be a busy and “interesting” one for privacy litigation and enforcement in Texas, the former privacy enforcer for the Lone Star state said Friday. This year saw two major developments in state p... (more story)
Meta Platforms for now has failed to stop two former employees who accused it of wrongdoing from being called as witnesses in US litigation over its social media platforms’ impact on young people.
Cookie consent pop-ups should be abolished and replaced with a more effective system for managing online privacy, Germany’s federal commissioner for data protection and a senior official at the data protection... (more story)
The UK privacy regulator has proposed new rules to formalize how it decides whether to open investigations, after criticism of its handling of major data breaches. The draft guidance, under consultation until ... (more story)
South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom reported a sharp decline in third-quarter earnings, with operating profit plunging 90.9 percent and revenue dropping 12.2 percent, following massive data breaches that exp... (more story)
Meta Platforms devoted much of its second appellate hearing to convincing a South Korean court that expert testimony is crucial to understanding how digital advertising actually works, an argument the panel pa... (more story)
Telegram Messenger must clarify the scope of its case, given that the instant-messaging service has seemingly expanded its legal case against the Australian online-safety regulator by including additional clai... (more story)
Health data, children’s data and data collected from connected devices will be key priorities for state privacy enforcers in the coming year, officials from California, Colorado, Delaware and Indiana said at a... (more story)
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At an annual Tokyo cybersecurity conference this week, international and Japanese experts agreed the world’s fourth-largest economy’s recent legal reforms are a step towards a more robust cyberdefense posture.... (more story)
China’s newly unveiled outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan draws the line clearly: any quick US-China trade détente won’t alter Beijing’s long-term course. A shift in tone — from the cautiously optimistic frami... (more story)
Norway is moving ahead swiftly in the debate over children's use of social media as it develops a plan for a strict minimum age of 15, the country's digital minister has said. Australia is the poster child for... (more story)
Companies are still sharing cybersecurity threat information despite the lapse last month of a 2015 US law shielding them from legal liability, with the hope that Congress will reauthorize the program quickly.
As digital advertising faces the increasing scrutiny that comes with mounting litigation and tightened regulation, the US bulk data rule that originated from national security concerns over hostile foreign cou... (more story)
A legal strategy targeting the data-collection practices of artificial intelligence music startups is also increasingly being wielded against the makers of text-based chatbots, a new US Reddit lawsuit against ... (more story)
Web browser Opera's challenge to the European Commission over its refusal to designate Microsoft's Edge as a digital "gatekeeper" was heard in court this week. It delved into the thorny question of who can cha... (more story)
TikTok faces broader legal exposure after a Dutch appeal court ruled that users can collectively seek compensation for non-material privacy harms — such as distress and loss of data control — under Dutch legis... (more story)