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Child safety online, tech sovereignty at center of EU ministers’ talks
Stronger EU measures to protect children online, as well as ways to boost the EU's technological independence, will be topics in focus for national digital minister... (more story)
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ACL's A$5.8m penalty stems from 'serious' privacy-law breaches, judgment reveals
Australian Clinical Labs' failure to take reasonable steps to protect sensitive patient information — which led to the 2022 data breach that exposed the personal de... (more story)
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Meta to appeal Dutch court order to change Facebook, Instagram feeds
Meta Platforms will appeal a Dutch court order requiring changes to Facebook and Instagram to let Dutch users more easily select and keep their choices on how their... (more story)
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Congress lacks the authority to “insulate” officers of executive agencies such as the US Federal Trade Commission from being removed at will by the president, the Trump administration told the US Supreme Court... (more story)
Data brokers will face more obligations as California enacts a new law that expands the types of data collection a broker must disclose and requires additional information such as dealings with foreign governm... (more story)
The EU’s digital simplification package should focus on making the General Data Protection Regulation and the AI Act more coherent and easier to apply across member states, Danish digital minister Caroline Sta... (more story)
Social media platforms such as Meta’s Instagram, ByteDance’s TikTok, and Snapchat should face tougher rules to protect children online, European digital ministers agreed on Friday, but they remained divided ov... (more story)
Microsoft and Austrian educational institutions broke EU data protection law over their use of Microsoft 365 Education, Austria's privacy regulator has found. It found unlawful tracking of students and incompl... (more story)
China has added Canadian semiconductor research platform TechInsights to its “unreliable entity” list, signaling Beijing’s resolve to protect its domestic chipmakers and assert control over the industry’s deve... (more story)
Snapchat, Google’s YouTube and Google Play and Apple’s App Store are facing scrutiny from the European Union under the Digital Services Act over how they protect minors online. The commission sent information ... (more story)
South Korea’s privacy watchdog inaugurated a new chair on Friday, with Song Kyung-hee outlining an agenda that ties stronger personal-data protection to the country’s ambitions in artificial intelligence. In h... (more story)
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A series of trials involving allegations against the world’s biggest social media companies — Meta Platforms, ByteDance, Google, and Snap — will take place in California beginning 2026 in federal and state cou... (more story)
The Brazilian administration aimed to submit two regulatory bills, one focused on user safety in digital services and the other on promoting fair competition among tech players, but government officials chose ... (more story)
Adtech companies, publishers, and large US tech platforms are eagerly awaiting how the EU’s executive will amend the bloc's rules governing how websites obtain consent from users for the placement of cookies, ... (more story)
Stronger EU measures to protect children online, as well as ways to boost the EU's technological independence, will be topics in focus for national digital ministers meeting in Denmark on Friday against a back... (more story)
Demands that Meta Platforms and X Corp. remove from their social-media feeds certain violent content, including footage of the assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk, has placed Australia’s online-sa... (more story)
A jury verdict against Meta Platforms has turned what were once nuisance lawsuits under California’s anti-wiretapping law into an escalating legal battleground. The decision has emboldened major plaintiffs’ fi... (more story)
Google took claims that it broke the law by continuing to collect personal data from nearly 100 million Americans who had toggled off a key privacy settling to a federal jury this summer and lost a $426 millio... (more story)
The Brazilian government has launched interim relief, known as Redata, offering tax exemptions to incentivize national and foreign companies to establish data centers in underserved regions to strengthen the c... (more story)