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Standalone AI chatbots test limits of European online child-protection regimes
AI chatbots are under increasing scrutiny for risks to children, but the EU's Digital Services Act and the UK’s Online Safety Act have so far left them in a regulat... (more story)
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Shinsegae, Alibaba JV cleared with data-sharing restrictions in South Korea
South Korean retail giant Shinsegae and China’s Alibaba Group have won conditional approval from South Korea’s competition regulator for a joint venture that will o... (more story)
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US FTC consumer protection chief Mufarrige to focus on 'kitchen-table' issues
In a wide-ranging conversation with MLex, the US Federal Trade Commission's new consumer protection chief, Chris Mufarrige, discusses how the agency’s probe of AI c... (more story)
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A panel of US appellate judges signaled little interest in reopening a landmark privacy settlement with Google to let 185 people intervene and pursue class claims over its alleged collection of their private browsing data.
US school districts and the social media platforms they are suing are asking a federal judge to decide the order of six bellwether trials that are slated to take place next summer in multidistrict litigation o... (more story)
MLex Summary: Shopify is seeking dismissal of a proposed privacy class action claiming the e-commerce platform secretly intercepts and collects consumers’ private information when they make purchases on mercha... (more story)
Apple can expect a decision in a long-running Italian competition probe into its policy on third-party apps on iPhones by January 2026, a senior official at Italy's competition regulator has said. The regulato... (more story)
Google’s breach of competition law in the running of its online advertising technology should be solved through a remedy covering both European and American markets, EU competition chief Teresa Ribera has said... (more story)
China’s Cyberspace Administration has issued draft rules clarifying when online platform service providers will be designated as having a large base of underage users or significant influence on minors. The dr... (more story)
Messaging platform Telegram’s legal challenge to an infringement notice issued by the Australian online safety regulator, originally set to be heard in October, has been pushed to December, after the watchdog ... (more story)
South Korea's science and finance regulators announced a sweeping overhaul of the country’s cybersecurity framework following back-to-back breaches at telecommunications giant KT and major credit card company ... (more story)
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AI chatbots are under increasing scrutiny for risks to children, but the EU's Digital Services Act and the UK’s Online Safety Act have so far left them in a regulatory grey zone. Pressure is mounting on multip... (more story)
Tech companies and regulators alike are keenly following EU plans to update aspects of the General Data Protection Regulation — notably by easing record-keeping obligations for mid-sized businesses. Data priva... (more story)
Kmart’s trial of facial-recognition technology has hit a regulatory snag, with Australia’s privacy watchdog ruling this week that the discount retailer had broken the law when it collected and stored the biome... (more story)
In a wide-ranging conversation with MLex, the US Federal Trade Commission's new consumer protection chief, Chris Mufarrige, discusses how the agency’s probe of AI chatbots and a flurry of recent privacy and on... (more story)
ByteDance may grant TikTok’s US operator a 10-year license to its recommendation algorithm, MLex has learned, as part of a framework to resolve the dispute over the app’s American operations. The proposal, alo... (more story)
Last week’s bombshell US whistleblower disclosures made it clear that Meta went to great lengths to shield itself from liability over any potential harm to kids and teens from its products. But its in-house la... (more story)
Class-action privacy settlements often put a monetary check before business changes, but a group of plaintiffs who alleged Google’s “Real-Time Bidding” ad auction violates their privacy say they've achieved a ... (more story)
China’s cyber police penalized French luxury house Dior for failing to meet personal-data protection obligations, in a case that sends a stark warning to companies transferring information across borders: comp... (more story)