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US House Republicans circulate privacy bill as regulators converge in DC April 01, 2026 | Madeline Hughes, Mike Swift and Matthew Newman

US House Republicans are circulating text for a consumer privacy bill, MLex has learned. The proposal is being discussed at the same time privacy regulators from across the globe converged in Washington, DC, a... (more story)

Supermicro cofounder, consultant plead not guilty in US AI chip diversion case April 01, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

Supermicro cofounder Yi-Shyan Liaw and third-party consultant Ting-Wei Sun each pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to US charges alleging they diverted billions of dollars of servers integrated with artificial in... (more story)

EU countries maintain diverging views on AI Act interplay with sectoral laws April 01, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi

EU member states are divided over changes to how the AI Act interacts with sectoral laws, with Germany and Italy backing the European Parliament’s proposal while many others warn of legal uncertainty and some ... (more story)

Risks from AI adoption in UK financial sector are likely to increase, BOE says April 01, 2026 | Sofia Gerace

The Bank of England said on Wednesday that artificial intelligence risks are likely to increase, as UK financial firms expand their deployment of the advanced technology. The UK’s financial sector has yet to a... (more story)

South Korea signals continued engagement after US flags data, platform concerns April 01, 2026 | Jenny Lee

South Korea moved on Wednesday to contain the implications of Washington’s latest assessment of its regulatory landscape, after a US trade report cast a growing range of the country’s digital and data-related ... (more story)

China's capital city updates plan to boost cross-border data flows in 6 priority areas April 01, 2026 | MLex Staff

Beijing has unveiled an updated reform plan to facilitate cross-border data flows, underscoring a shift from a compliance-driven approach to one focused on unlocking the value of data. The plan, introduced at ... (more story)

South Korea to allow more flexible use of pseudonymized data for AI development April 01, 2026 | Wooyoung Lee

South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission has revised its guidelines for generating pseudonymized datasets to make data use more flexible for AI development and updates. The sweeping revisions a... (more story)

Austrian privacy activist Schrems won't abandon possible 'Schrems III' case March 31, 2026 | Mike Swift

Speaking at the largest annual gathering of privacy professionals, Max Schrems, the Austrian data protection activist who torpedoed two previous EU-US data transfer systems, discussed how he may lodge a "Schre... (more story)

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Canadian privacy commissioner eyes fines, consent changes in Facebook Supreme Court case April 01, 2026 | Mike Swift

Philippe Dufresne, who heads the Office of the Privacy Commission of Canada, sat down with MLex on the sidelines of an international privacy conference for an exclusive interview on his view of possible next s... (more story)

US FTC could be headed away from data-deletion remedies March 30, 2026 | Madeline Hughes and Emma Whitford

The deletion of data and algorithms as an US Federal Trade Commission remedy for unfair or deceptive data privacy practices could go by the wayside. These “are viewed as the more extreme measures,” US Federal ... (more story)

Agentic AI cyber attacks growing, along with regulatory risk March 30, 2026 | Amy Miller

Anthropic, Amazon and Meta Platforms have all learned the hard way that the cybersecurity risks posed by AI agents are no longer theoretical. Along with other companies, they've recently reported security brea... (more story)

Anthropic fight against US DoD designation moves to DC Circuit March 30, 2026 | Mike Swift

Anthropic is pivoting its legal battle against the Trump Administration toward a federal appeals court in Washington DC. in the wake of a federal court case in which the judge used strikingly blunt language an... (more story)

Why UK lawmakers' push for social media under-16 ban may soon run out of steam March 27, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

Major online platforms saw UK lawmakers leave a growing standoff over child safety unresolved as they began their Easter break. The House of Lords this week renewed a push for an under-16 ban on social media, ... (more story)

Brazil faces hurdles on data-center bill as it leaves sustainability aside March 27, 2026 | Henrique Santiago

Brazil’s goal to attract foreign investment for establishing data centers runs into the same lack of socio-environmental safeguards presented in recently expired interim relief, critics of the project told MLe... (more story)

Cox ruling in US clouds contributory infringement claims against AI companies March 26, 2026 | Melissa Ritti and Emma Whitford

A California federal judge’s decision allowing authors to expand their copyright case against Meta collided almost immediately Wednesday with a Supreme Court ruling that is likely to test the newly added theor... (more story)

Is effective altruism's catastrophist risk agenda shaping EU AI enforcement? March 26, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi

Which risks to prioritize in AI governance? As core parts of the EU's AI Act near enforcement, competing to provide the answer are effective altruism, which stresses maximizing humanity’s long-term wellbeing, ... (more story)