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China blacklists Canada's TechInsights after Huawei chip teardown reports October 10, 2025 | MLex Staff

China has added Canadian semiconductor research platform TechInsights to its “unreliable entity” list, signaling Beijing’s resolve to protect its domestic chipmakers and assert control over the industry’s deve... (more story)

Snapchat, YouTube, Apple and Google face EU scrutiny over protection of minors October 10, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter

Snapchat, Google’s YouTube and Google Play and Apple’s App Store are facing scrutiny from the European Union under the Digital Services Act over how they protect minors online. The commission sent information ... (more story)

South Korea's privacy watchdog inaugurates new chair with eye on AI ambitions October 10, 2025 | Jenny Lee

South Korea’s privacy watchdog inaugurated a new chair on Friday, with Song Kyung-hee outlining an agenda that ties stronger personal-data protection to the country’s ambitions in artificial intelligence. In h... (more story)

Apple warns of internet-wide consequences as US judge mulls pen register claim October 09, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

A privacy lawsuit against Apple is testing whether a company's own software can qualify as an illegal “pen register” under a state law aimed at protecting individuals from government surveillance.

Use lawful age checks to manage social-media bans, Australian watchdog warns tech companies October 09, 2025 | Saloni Sinha

Social-media platforms will be actively monitored to ensure they “stay within the bounds by deploying age assurance proportionately and lawfully,” Australia's privacy regulator said, as the country prepares to... (more story)

San Francisco 49ers near final approval of US data breach settlement October 09, 2025 | Mike Swift

A federal judge said he's ready to grant final approval of the San Francisco 49ers' proposed $610,000 settlement of litigation filed in the wake of a 2022 data breach, a settlement proposal which US District J... (more story)

Dispute over Belgian transfer of US citizens' financial data in court on Oct. 22 October 09, 2025 | Matthew Newman

Lawyers for the Belgian government and the country’s privacy watchdog will appear at a Brussels court on Oct. 22 in a dispute about transfers of US citizens’ financial data to US tax authorities. The case is c... (more story)

ACL's A$5.8m penalty stems from 'serious' privacy-law breaches, judgment reveals October 09, 2025 | Saloni Sinha

Australian Clinical Labs' failure to take reasonable steps to protect sensitive patient information — which led to the 2022 data breach that exposed the personal details of 223,000 individuals — amounted to a ... (more story)

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Meta, Google, ByteDance, Snap face pivotal trials over their grip on youth October 09, 2025 | Xu Yuan

A series of trials involving allegations against the world’s biggest social media companies — Meta Platforms, ByteDance, Google, and Snap — will take place in California beginning 2026 in federal and state cou... (more story)

Brazil’s government delays key tech bill despite major win in Congress October 09, 2025 | Henrique Santiago

The Brazilian administration aimed to submit two regulatory bills, one focused on user safety in digital services and the other on promoting fair competition among tech players, but government officials chose ... (more story)

Platforms, publishers to see renewed cookie debate in EU's simplification law October 09, 2025 | Matthew Newman

Adtech companies, publishers, and large US tech platforms are eagerly awaiting how the EU’s executive will amend the bloc's rules governing how websites obtain consent from users for the placement of cookies, ... (more story)

Child safety online, tech sovereignty at center of EU ministers’ talks October 09, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter

Stronger EU measures to protect children online, as well as ways to boost the EU's technological independence, will be topics in focus for national digital ministers meeting in Denmark on Friday against a back... (more story)

Free-speech activists challenge global reach of Australia's online watchdog October 09, 2025 | James Panichi

Demands that Meta Platforms and X Corp. remove from their social-media feeds certain violent content, including footage of the assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk, has placed Australia’s online-sa... (more story)

Blockbuster Meta verdict signals end of 'nuisance' era for California privacy lawsuits October 08, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

A jury verdict against Meta Platforms has turned what were once nuisance lawsuits under California’s anti-wiretapping law into an escalating legal battleground. The decision has emboldened major plaintiffs’ fi... (more story)

Google faces risky next chapter in watershed US privacy case October 07, 2025 | Mike Swift

Google took claims that it broke the law by continuing to collect personal data from nearly 100 million Americans who had toggled off a key privacy settling to a federal jury this summer and lost a $426 millio... (more story)

Brazil’s data center expansion plan sparks sustainability concerns October 02, 2025 | Henrique Santiago

The Brazilian government has launched interim relief, known as Redata, offering tax exemptions to incentivize national and foreign companies to establish data centers in underserved regions to strengthen the c... (more story)