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South Korea's PIPC seeks to keep data issues from becoming trade flashpoints
South Korea’s privacy regulator is ramping up efforts to ensure that data issues do not escalate into trade or political disputes, its vice chairman said. The PIPC ... (more story)
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California AI report urges 'trust-but-verify' rules for most powerful models
In response to a charge by California Governor Gavin Newsom, a group of AI scholars set out eight key principles around the development of the most powerful frontie... (more story)
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Social-media under-16 ban could lead to bulk-data collection, NZ regulator says
A proposed social-media ban for children under 16 could be “challenging” in practice, because it would be likely to trigger the collection of large volumes of perso... (more story)
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Eight jurors will decide if fertility app Flo Health illegally shared women's menstrual and pregnancy data with Google and Meta Platforms, US District Judge James Donato in San Francisco said. The trial, slate... (more story)
Saying a recent decision by a federal judge in California handing a privacy win to Google was in "direct conflict" with an earlier appeals court ruling in the case, a group of plaintiffs asked the US Court of ... (more story)
Connecticut strengthened its protections over sensitive data, including neural data and children’s information, after Governor Ned Lamont signed a data-protection law. Protecting the data is important because ... (more story)
More regulatory measures targeting both large and small tech platforms used by minors are urgently needed, officials from the EU, Norway, and Sierra Leone agreed during a panel discussion today. Changing algor... (more story)
A draft of the EU's Quantum Strategy, seen by MLex, outlines a plan to accelerate chip industrialization, fast-track commercialization and establish a quantum ecosystem — and sets the stage for a legislative p... (more story)
Google could be fined a record 525 million euros for alleged violations of French rules on managing cookies and personalized advertising in e-mail service Gmail, a French data protection official said during a... (more story)
EU Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath will host a high-level meeting on July 16 to gather ideas on simplifying the GDPR with upcoming targeted amendments. Part of the European Commission’s “implementation di... (more story)
Australia’s online-safety regulator has pushed back against claims by X, formerly Twitter, that it isn’t bound by new standards the watchdog issued under Australia’s 2021 Online Safety Act. In court documents ... (more story)
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Industry groups representing large US technology companies — such as Meta, Google and Microsoft — are expressing concerns about the scope and confidentiality of new rules for streamlining cross-border enforcem... (more story)
A US court may order Google to disclose documents submitted last year to the EU antitrust regulator relating to commitments offered in an ongoing antitrust probe. The European Commission has declined to object... (more story)
A children’s privacy bill that would extend protections to teenagers in the US is getting an early start this Congress with new support from the tech industry. The Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection... (more story)
The justices of Brazil’s highest court have secured a majority vote to amend Article 19 of the Internet Civil Rights Framework. The court will address in depth the role of models for holding social media platf... (more story)
A Texas federal judge ruled that a jury, rather than the judge, will decide key liability issues on a Texas-led coalition of 17 states and territories' allegations that Google’s adtech business violates state ... (more story)
In a clear signal that geopolitics can override even the most widespread goodwill, an Indian court recently delivered a pointed verdict in the high-stakes case of ByteDance (TikTok) vs. The Registrar of Tradem... (more story)
Judging that the "narrow, hollowed out, ideologically inflected conception" of Reagan-era privacy enforcement limited to deceptive conduct could no longer protect American consumers in the modern digital econo... (more story)
WhatsApp’s announcement this week that it will start offering targeted advertising, while unlikely to happen in the EU for some time, poses questions over compliance with the EU’s "digital gatekeeper" competit... (more story)