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TikTok owner ByteDance fined EUR530 million in Irish GDPR data-transfer case
TikTok owner ByteDance has been fined 530 million euros by Ireland’s privacy watchdog following an investigation into possible transfers of users’ data to China, th... (more story)
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Malaysia's cross-border data-transfer guidelines emphasize accountability
Malaysia has set out detailed guidelines for companies transferring personal data abroad, allowing such transfers under a framework that places full responsibility ... (more story)
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Google CEO slams forced sale of Chrome as 'de facto' divestiture of search
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google, told a US federal judge today the government’s proposal to hive off its Chrome browser as a remedy in a monopoliza... (more story)
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Gail Slater, antitrust chief at the US Department of Justice, today said competition authorities ought to explore steps they can take and the role they have to play in stimulating economic growth and deregulat... (more story)
In a landmark settlement that underscores the growing prominence of US states in privacy regulation, Google will pay nearly $1.4 billion to settle two privacy cases filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton i... (more story)
Trans-Atlantic digital policy coordination on privacy and artificial intelligence is in danger of being lost in the uncertainty and tension between the US and European Union, said Kai Zenner, the head of offic... (more story)
A bill that would put the burden of conducting age verification on Apple Store, Google Play and other app stores passed out of the state House of Representatives in Texas, following its passage in the state Senate.
Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus Group is asking a federal judge to approve a $3.5 million settlement with consumers whose personal data was exposed in a 2024 cyberattack on cloud storage provider Snowflake.
Itai Tech, operator of the nudification app Undress.cc, and Score Internet Group, owner of porn website Scoreland.com, are under investigation for potential breaches of age verification rules under the UK's On... (more story)
At a hearing today, a US federal judge overseeing a privacy class action against BetterHelp over tracking pixels that shared users' data with Meta Platforms and Google said it doesn't seem unduly burdensome fo... (more story)
Change Healthcare is improperly trying to prematurely collect loans it issued to healthcare providers following a massive 2024 cyberattack that exposed the health data of over 100 million Americans, lawyers fo... (more story)
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Last week marked 100 days since the start of Andrew Ferguson’s leadership of the US Federal Trade Commission, and while the new chairman has frequently talked the talk of a full-throated Trump populist, the wa... (more story)
Social media platforms’ age verification — intended to keep children out — needs to be regulated at the EU level, Denmark's digital minister told MLex in an interview. Caroline Stage Olsen said that platforms ... (more story)
The center-left government of Australia has been returned to office with an enhanced electoral majority, handing it a mandate to push ahead with key policies outlined over the past three years. Prominent candi... (more story)
With the US Federal Trade Commission and lawmakers in California and elsewhere scrutinizing “surveillance pricing” practices, private litigation is also starting to target that nascent practice, where retailer... (more story)
Unconvinced by NSO Group Technologies’ argument that it couldn’t – and shouldn’t – pay punitive damages for using WhatsApp to plant its Pegasus software on unsuspecting surveillance targets around the world, a... (more story)
Meta Platforms is hoping to get the UK data privacy regulator on board with its plans for an ad-free subscription version of its social media products for the British market in coming months. The US tech giant... (more story)
A 530 million-euro EU fine against TikTok for breaching the GDPR has raised questions about whether any company that sends personal data to China can do so legally under the law. The Irish data regulator's dec... (more story)
Tech platforms covered by the UK's Online Safety Act this week received mixed messages from regulator Ofcom and government officials on how the law covers misinformation and disinformation. At a parliamentary ... (more story)