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California privacy agency advances rules for data collection opt-out platform September 27, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

Californians are on track to get a single place to block data brokers from trading on their personal information, as state privacy regulators on Friday advanced updated rules for a new opt-out platform. The st... (more story)

UK nursery chain Kido reports children’s data breach to privacy regulator September 26, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

Nursery chain Kido International has notified the UK privacy regulator of a cyber attack this week that has reportedly compromised personal data, including photos and addresses, of more than 8,000 children. Th... (more story)

Meta's Facebook, Instagram to offer ad-free subscription model in the UK September 26, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

Meta Platforms will introduce an ad-free subscription for Facebook and Instagram in the UK in coming weeks, the company has announced. It argued the change will ensure users have “a clear choice” over how thei... (more story)

EU toolbox for managing, blocking high-risk digital suppliers almost ready September 26, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi

The EU is close to finalizing a set of recommendations for how member states should check their supply chains for all digital technologies and restrict or exclude high-risk vendors. The so-called Information a... (more story)

UK digital ID plan for work checks met by privacy, security, compliance questions September 26, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

UK businesses will need to use a digital ID system to verify employees’ identities and their legal right to work by July 2029 at the latest, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said. Critics warned quickly of priv... (more story)

Chinese AI firms, tech giants back ethical norms to protect minors September 26, 2025 | MLex Staff

China’s artificial-intelligence startups and tech giants are backing a new consensus on ethical norms to protect minors, aligning with Beijing’s call to set guardrails on emerging technologies amid rising conc... (more story)

WhatsApp contests antitrust watchdog's arguments, citing India's forthcoming privacy law September 26, 2025 | Freny Patel

As India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act nears enforcement, WhatsApp and its parent Meta Platforms have urged the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal to curb the Competition Commission of India, arg... (more story)

US Commerce opens national security probe of medical device imports September 25, 2025 | Bradley Dress

The US Department of Commerce announced a major new Section 232 trade probe into imports of medical devices and related equipment, which overlaps with a pharmaceutical imports investigation and raises the poss... (more story)

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TikTok divestiture addresses US security concerns, but privacy questions unanswered September 26, 2025 | Mike Swift and Madeline Hughes

A deal announced by the White House this week to divest TikTok's US operations from Chinese control squarely addresses national security concerns about the manipulation of the platform's content algorithm to f... (more story)

South Korea puts data at heart of merger control in Shinsegae-Alibaba JV September 26, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee

South Korea’s competition regulator has, for the first time, treated data as a core competitive asset in a merger review. By imposing data-sharing restrictions on the Shinsegae-Alibaba joint venture, the Korea... (more story)

Harm to children from AI, social media in focus for US legislators, courts September 24, 2025 | Madeline Hughes

Social media's impact on children has been placed under an increasingly harsh spotlight in the US, with lawsuits and two congressional hearings training scrutiny on platforms and companies building AI chatbots... (more story)

Standalone AI chatbots test limits of European online child-protection regimes September 19, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo and Sara Brandstätter

AI chatbots are under increasing scrutiny for risks to children, but the EU's Digital Services Act and the UK’s Online Safety Act have so far left them in a regulatory grey zone. Pressure is mounting on multip... (more story)

Update GDPR with targeted fixes, not broad reforms, German data watchdogs urge September 19, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter

Tech companies and regulators alike are keenly following EU plans to update aspects of the General Data Protection Regulation — notably by easing record-keeping obligations for mid-sized businesses. Data priva... (more story)

The politics behind Australian retailers' flirtation with biometric-data September 18, 2025 | James Panichi and Saloni Sinha

Kmart’s trial of facial-recognition technology has hit a regulatory snag, with Australia’s privacy watchdog ruling this week that the discount retailer had broken the law when it collected and stored the biome... (more story)

US FTC consumer protection chief Mufarrige to focus on 'kitchen-table' issues September 17, 2025 | Mike Swift and Madeline Hughes

In a wide-ranging conversation with MLex, the US Federal Trade Commission's new consumer protection chief, Chris Mufarrige, discusses how the agency’s probe of AI chatbots and a flurry of recent privacy and on... (more story)

TikTok's licensing plan shows app's role as bargaining chip in US-China trade talks September 17, 2025 | MLex Staff

ByteDance may grant TikTok’s US operator a 10-year license to its recommendation algorithm, MLex has learned, as part of a framework to resolve the dispute over the app’s American operations. The proposal, alo... (more story)