Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, Technology
October 22, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
October 21, 2026 | Emma Whitford
Data Privacy and Security
October 21, 2026 | Mike Swift, Xu Yuan and Madeline Hughes
October 22, 2026
MLex Summary: Pacific Gas and Electric consumers have again failed to overcome Noerr-Pennington immunity in their US antitrust case against PG&E, its president, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & ... (more story)
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies involved in operating, repairing, maintaining and upgrading water supply and sewage networks in Greece — and in the supply of related equipment — received surprise visits from antirust ... (more story)
MLex Summary: Meta’s revised commercial terms are again up for review at the UK and EU competition regulators, after advocacy group Movement for an Open Web filed a complaint. In a press release on Thursday, M... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s proposed technology-export restrictions expose a tension in the country's ambitions as a technology power: Beijing wants to retain control over innovations underpinning its industrial strength while pr... (more story)
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms’ smart glasses should face urgent EU investigations over privacy and covert surveillance risks, the European Consumer Organisation, BEUC, has urged in a letter dated Wednesday and ... (more story)
MLex Summary: South Korea on Thursday raised its private-sector cyberthreat alert level by one notch after the revelation of two major security vulnerabilities in programming language PHP highlighted a signifi... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst
Air France-KLM has tapped market players as possible remedy-takers in relation to the EU review of its acquisition of Scandinavian rival SAS, MLex has learned. The companies have explored ways of fostering ext... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Jean Comte
The possibility for competitors and other market players to challenge European Commission merger decisions is a key safeguard of the bloc's competition regime, Guillaume Loriot said on Thursday. Enforcers have... (more story)
MLex Summary: Teledyne Technologies and Varex Imaging’s US merger waiting period is set to expire at 11:59 pm Eastern time on Nov. 19, unless terminated early or extended by a request for additional informatio... (more story)
MLex Summary: Two unnamed data controllers have received reprimands from Belgium’s data protection authority, for failing to assess the risks of transferring personal data to countries outside the European Eco... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Imogen Howse
Children’s reported exposure to harmful content online showed no significant overall change over the first nine months after platforms were subjected to new child safety duties, regulator Ofcom said in a repor... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Matthew Newman
French electronics retailer Boulanger should be fined €9 million for several violations of EU data protection rules for failing to secure customers’ data and using weak passwords, a French privacy official sai... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
Massachusetts’ highest court has rejected a presumption of irreparable harm when weighing preliminary injunction requests in trade secret cases, requiring plaintiffs there to first establish that monetary dama... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Freny Patel
India’s Supreme Court will examine whether patent holders deserve compensation for government delays that erode enforceable protection, weighing inventors’ rights against competition and Parliament’s authority... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
Whether Anthropic's Claude spits out song lyrics verbatim, creates derivative works or generates new songs, Anthropic’s use of those lyrics isn't transformative, lawyers for music publishers argued Wednesday a... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase’s Irish unit has been fined €3.2 million by the country’s central bank, over breaches of Ireland’s e-money regulations around safeguarding. This fine follows a €21.4 million pe... (more story)
Güralp Systems has been given more time to negotiate with the UK fraud agency over its failure to pay £2 million agreed in a plea deal to avoid prosecution over allegations of bribery in South Korea. The UK se... (more story)
MLex Summary: The EU’s Anti-Money Laundering Authority and Anti-Fraud Office have signed an agreement to strengthen their cooperation against financial crime. The deal will allow the agencies to share informat... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Helena Freitas
Negotiations on the digital euro continue to be complicated by disagreements over merchant fees, with the European Commission suggesting a possible middle ground between EU lawmakers and governments. It will p... (more story)
October 21, 2026 | Fanny Roux
EU governments and lawmakers struck a deal on a revamped EU securitization framework Wednesday night in Strasbourg, France. They adjusted the capital rules initially proposed by the European Commission, change... (more story)
October 21, 2026 | Neil Roland
The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency became the first of four agencies due to adopt GENIUS Act stablecoin rules, though the OCC’s departure from its original proposal drew sharp criticism from banking groups.
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The EU and Canada are “very close to the finish line” in negotiations for a digital trade agreement, EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said on Thursday in a statement on LinkedIn, adding that ... (more story)
MLex Summary: Importer BT Solar and customs declarant RC-Log should lose their appeal against tariffs levied on past imports of solar panels into the EU, a legal opinion for the EU's top court said Thursday. T... (more story)
MLex Summary: Chinese canned mandarins — and other citrus fruits — will be subject to EU dumping duties of up to 531.20 euros per metric ton for a further five years, the European Commission said on Thursday. ... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Lewis Crofts and Anna Lauwereys
Five Spanish industrial manufacturers saw their challenge of a state aid measure for power prices dismissed at the EU top court on Thursday. PGI Spain, Berry Superfos Pamplona, Promens Packaging, RPC Envases a... (more story)
MLex Summary: PGI Spain, along with companies including Berry Superfos and RPC Envases, failed to challenge a previous court defeat over a Spanish and Portuguese measure to back the input costs of fossil-fuel ... (more story)
MLex Summary: Romania's decision to reserve mandatory port pilotage services for public entities is not state aid where those services are inseparable from public duties involving maritime safety and environme... (more story)
MLex Summary: Nearly 100 million additional free allowances under the EU Emissions Trading System would shield industry from the risk of production moving abroad, under a position adopted by the European Parli... (more story)
MLex Summary: The European Parliament has called for a faster global phaseout of fossil fuels and increased climate funding ahead of UN climate talks in Turkey in November. In a position adopted on Thursday, l... (more story)
MLex Summary: The European Parliament has backed a three-year delay to EU methane reporting requirements for oil, gas and coal importers and producers, going beyond the European Commission’s proposed one-year ... (more story)
MLex Summary: Online services likely to be accessed by children should face stronger duties on content promoting depression and stigmatizing body types, the UK's online safety regulator said in a report publis... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Sean Maguire
Oceania
Singtel Optus is seeking soft-class closure ahead of February mediation to clarify how many people may seek compensation over a 2022 data breach alleged to have affected around 9.5 million people in Australia.... (more story)
MLex Summary: US social media giant Meta Platforms said Wednesday that it held a roundtable in Japan attended by its global head of safety, Antigone Davis, to discuss greater cooperation among technology compa... (more story)