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Japan proposes looser data privacy law to support AI, puts class action on hold
Tokyo’s data privacy watchdog said Friday that it has finalized the triennial amendment to the Personal Information Protection Act, a landmark draft bill that will ... (more story)
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White House drops plan to nominate Baasch to US Federal Trade Commission
The White House no longer plans to nominate Ryan Baasch to be a member of the Federal Trade Commission, as he will be promoted to a role as deputy director of the N... (more story)
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US regulators to use same playbook for battling social-media harms for chatbots
From US courts to the halls of Congress, AI chatbots are seen as the next frontier in online harm to children, and regulators are using the same strategy to address it.
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A US federal judge dismissed for now privacy claims against Meta Platforms over the use of its software development tools by third-party apps because the plaintiffs failed to accuse Meta of having knowledge of... (more story)
Talks on a legislative package that would simplify the General Data Protection Regulation are getting underway, a discussion paper from Cyprus shows. The paper, seen by MLex and dated Jan. 9, invites member st... (more story)
Chinese authorities are leaning toward blocking domestic internet and technology companies from purchasing Nvidia’s H200 chips amid mounting geopolitical tensions following recent US actions involving Venezuel... (more story)
Coupang faced a renewed on-site inspection by South Korea's antitrust regulator on Tuesday, as the enforcement campaign against the e-commerce giant expands from a recent personal data breach to encompass broa... (more story)
China’s national intelligence and counterespionage authority warned of covert leaks of geospatial mapping data, highlighting the importance of protecting such information for economic development and national ... (more story)
Kyowon Group, the South Korean education conglomerate, said it has found indications that data was leaked outside the company after a ransomware attack that disrupted its systems, prompting the country’s priva... (more story)
Character.AI has been sued by Kentucky's Republican attorney general, Russell Coleman, in what the state says is the first US regulatory suit against a chatbot company. The suit filed in a Kentucky state court... (more story)
Nicole Ozer, a legal expert on artificial intelligence and privacy in California, has been appointed to the five-member board of the state’s privacy regulator.
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The US Supreme Court is taking up a pair of cases brought by wireless carriers on the question of whether the Federal Communications Commission can fine companies for privacy violations through its administrat... (more story)
Elon Musk’s platform X has moved to restrict Grok's image generation and editing tools to paying users following weeks of regulatory and political backlash over the creation of intimate deepfakes. The change h... (more story)
The stability of a crucial trans-Atlantic data transfer agreement could be challenged if a forthcoming US Supreme Court decision erodes the independence of some US regulatory bodies in the view of the EU’s top... (more story)
The boom in AI and the platform economy is posing challenges to Europe’s legal order and will raise questions over the approach to copyright, contracts and transparency, according to Maciej Szpunar, one of the... (more story)
Europe’s big phone companies — such as Telefónica, Orange and Deutsche Telekom — are unlikely to see a major overhaul of the EU's telecom rules this year. But the European Commission's planned Digital Networks... (more story)
Companies operating in China face diverging pressures in 2026 as data privacy and cybersecurity policy pull in several directions at once. Public unease over data misuse, rising geopolitical friction with the ... (more story)
Negotiations on an EU law to tackle online child sexual abuse material are set to continue in the year ahead, with talks penciled in for February, May and June. But despite recent progress, the bloc's institut... (more story)
Meta Platform’s blockbuster acquisition of Manus appears straightforward: A US tech giant buys a promising artificial intelligence startup. But the deal exposes a troubling pattern for Beijing — Chinese-develo... (more story)