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OpenAI eyes South Korean 'inference residency' amid rapid ChatGPT growth September 09, 2026 | Choonsik Yoo

South Korea remains one of ChatGPT’s fastest-growing markets, with OpenAI working to bring "inference residency" to the country by securing sufficient domestic computing power, the head of its South Korean ope... (more story)

Google gaming antitrust probe ends after change in Indian law September 09, 2026 | Freny Patel

Google’s Indian antitrust probe into real-money gaming restrictions closed without a merits ruling after new legislation eliminated the market, leaving the Competition Commission of India unable to impose any ... (more story)

UK law for device-level child protections now in the works; no timetable given (update*) September 08, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

Major tech platforms will be required to build in device-level protections for children under planned new UK legislation, culture minister Lisa Nandy told lawmakers Tuesday, three months after companies were t... (more story)

X faces Irish online safety probe over age assurance, parental controls September 08, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

X is under a formal Irish regulatory probe — the first under the country's Online Safety Code — over over whether its age assurance measures and parental controls adequately protect children from adult-only vi... (more story)

Ban social media for under-15s, regulate addictive features, Macron tells EU September 08, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Social media platforms should be banned for under-15s and face stricter EU rules on addictive features and safety by default, French President Emmanuel Macron has told European Commission President Ursula von ... (more story)

Australia's draft digital duty-of-care law targets social-media algorithms September 08, 2026 | Saloni Sinha

Australia’s proposed digital duty-of-care law would allow social-media users to choose whether algorithmically recommended content appears in their feeds, while requiring online services to assess and mitigate... (more story)

South Korea's Gangnam Unni breach affecting nearly 220,000 users under PIPC review September 08, 2026 | Jenny Lee

Healing Paper, the operator of Gangnam Unni, reported a data breach affecting nearly 220,000 users to South Korea’s privacy regulator on Monday, putting the incident under preliminary review as the watchdog co... (more story)

Thailand orders state agencies to share digital data through central system September 08, 2026 | Choltanutkun Tun-atiruj

Thailand has brought into force a new framework requiring state agencies to connect their information systems to a central digital-data sharing platform and respond to data requests from other agencies within ... (more story)

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Flock faces mounting litigation in US amid backlash over AI-powered surveillance September 08, 2026 | Xu Yuan

Flock Safety, the operator of a nationwide network of cameras that capture motor vehicle information, is facing increasing lawsuits amid a public outcry over privacy concerns arising from what plaintiffs call ... (more story)

Meta to face off with New Mexico again, this time over Cambridge Analytica September 04, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo

Meta Platforms is heading back to court against New Mexico just weeks after a $942 million loss to the state, this time over Facebook's handling of user data during the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Calif. SB 690 trims privacy litigation without closing door September 04, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo

A far narrower version of a bill intended to curb California Invasion of Privacy Act litigation has cleared the state Legislature. While it won’t shut off the spigot of lawsuits, it will eliminate some of the ... (more story)

US faces long list of trade challenges with Canada, Mexico September 03, 2026 | Bradley Dress

The US has a long list of issues that have become outstanding challenges in trade negotiations with Canada and Mexico and are preventing the closing of a deal, including disputes over cheese, cars, foreign lan... (more story)

Meta’s US settlement fuels global push for teen safeguards September 03, 2026 | Matthew Newman, Xu Yuan, Maria Dinzeo, Madeline Hughes, Jenny Lee, James Konstantin Galvez, Roffie Kurniawan and Jet Damazo-Santos

From Seoul to Singapore and London to Brussels, Meta Platforms’ landmark settlement with 51 US jurisdictions in August has reverberated globally, prompting calls for similar child-protection requirements elsew... (more story)

Google’s US adtech win gives EU new remedy headache September 02, 2026 | Lewis Crofts

Google persuaded a US judge not to break up its adtech business, putting the European Commission in an awkward position of deciding whether to settle for the same solution or push for an asset sale and risk a ... (more story)

California passes slate of bills advancing child online-safety push September 01, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo

California’s child online-safety push is entering a more mature phase, as lawmakers use lessons from years of litigation and earlier legislation to tighten age-assurance rules, revive privacy protections, regu... (more story)

Does social media’s liability shield still hold after recent EU court rulings? September 01, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Recent EU court rulings are raising questions over how broadly social media platforms can still rely on liability shields for user-generated content. Russmedia, Coyote and a YouTube judgment point to greater r... (more story)