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Florida content moderation law must face tech's US free speech suit
A federal judge cleared the way for tech industry groups to move forward with their constitutional challenge to Florida’s social media law, finding they’ve plausibl... (more story)
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Fired US FTC commissioners clash with DOJ attorney
Lawyers for former Democratic US Federal Trade Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter clashed in federal court today with a Department of Justice lawye... (more story)
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OpenAI’s 'hallucination' warnings helped sink radio host’s US defamation claims
False information about a conservative Georgia radio host "hallucinated" by ChatGPT could not be reasonably accepted as fact, a state judge ordered yesterday, savin... (more story)
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NSO Group Technologies, owner of the Pegasus spyware, called the $168 million awarded to Meta Platforms by a US federal jury as a punishment for its hacking into the servers of Meta’s WhatsApp “outrageous” and... (more story)
Nebraska and Vermont are the latest states to crack down on Big Tech’s handling of kids’ data with sweeping age-appropriate design code laws that give minors greater control over their privacy and social media use.
UK Interactive Entertainment, the main trade body for the UK gaming sector, has today rejected a study that said the industry is not following its own guidelines to restrict young users from using loot boxes, ... (more story)
Businesses and authorities using or planning to use biometrics systems such as facial recognition in the UK are stalling due to the legal uncertainties, Michael Birtwistle, associate director of the Ada Lovela... (more story)
China’s draft national standards for children’s watch safety propose restricting generative AI services to safeguard content, alongside measures to protect information systems, data, and personal privacy. Chin... (more story)
US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson warned that if government officials don't intervene, an ongoing “censorship crisis” on social media platforms might continue or worsen, and he outlined aggr... (more story)
A federal judge denied the US Department of Justice’s motion to stay the reinstatement of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board members Travis LeBlanc and Edward Felten, allowing them to remain in their ... (more story)
Specialized institutions and auditors in China now have a clearer view of the regulatory outlook from the country’s Internet regulator, which has specified the accredited bodies eligible for certification and ... (more story)
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US courts continue to see proposed class actions involving the use of website-tracking tools such as the Meta Pixel, but companies are also increasingly being hit with large numbers of coordinated arbitration ... (more story)
While the US Supreme Court explicitly spared the Federal Reserve from the brunt of its decision on agency independence, the court was conspicuously silent on other purportedly independent bodies, including the... (more story)
Telegram Messenger and X have both launched lawsuits targeting Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant over her attempts to hold Big Tech responsible for illegal material their users may send. Both l... (more story)
New Zealand appears set to follow Australia down the path of legislating a social-media ban for children under 16 years of age. While there appears to be broad — but not unanimous — popular and political suppo... (more story)
The California Privacy Protection Agency's two biggest enforcement cases this year, against Honda and clothier Todd Snyder, both involved data-minimization and “dark patterns” deceptive-design issues. That's n... (more story)
Adtech association IAB Europe saw a Belgian court uphold a fine of 250,000 euros against it last week for breaching EU data protection rules, confirming its role as a joint controller of consent data collected... (more story)
A bill quickly moving through the California Senate promises to protect small businesses from a wave of privacy lawsuits being brought under a decades-old anti-wiretapping law. But is it giving a free pass to Big Tech?
On the heels of a $168 million award by a US jury to Meta Platforms for its hacking into Meta’s instant-messaging app WhatsApp, the owner of spyware Pegasus faces a potentially even bigger battle that it argue... (more story)