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Google on track to secure $30 million settlement of US kids' privacy claims
A federal judge in San Jose, California, said she will grant preliminary approval to a proposed $30 million settlement between Google and plaintiffs who say the dig... (more story)
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Lula condemns US sanctions, defends Brazil’s sovereignty in UN speech
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defended Brazil's sovereignty in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly, in which he referred to US Presi... (more story)
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US Supreme Court allows removal of FTC's Slaughter; case set for December
The US Supreme Court has granted a Trump administration application for a stay in a case involving Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, allowing the ... (more story)
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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)
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 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)
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 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)
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)
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)
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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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’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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)