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Meta's effort to seek stay on India's antitrust decision deferred by tribunal January 16, 2025 | Freny Patel

In a major setback for WhatsApp and its parent company Meta Platforms, an Indian tribunal deferred its decision on granting the messaging app interim relief to stay an order of the country's antitrust watchdog... (more story)

US FTC bars General Motors from selling driver data for five years January 16, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

The US Federal Trade Commission filed its first action related to connected vehicle data today, part of a flurry of last-minute actions the regulator has taken in the waning days of outgoing Chair Lina Khan's leadership.

Parental opt-in required under new US FTC child data-protection rule January 16, 2025 | Xu Yuan

Companies must obtain parental approval to send targeted ads to children or share their data with third parties under newly finalized rules by the US Federal Trade Commission that aim to protect children’s data.

Foreign direct investments likely face increased global scrutiny, lawyers say January 16, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger

Lawyers working on regulatory reviews of foreign direct investment regimes expect government leaders across the globe to become more active in scrutinizing foreign investors, to broaden the definition of what ... (more story)

UK’s online age-assurance rules kick in, with porn sites first for enforcement January 16, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo and Frank Hersey

Social-media, pornography and other online platforms received final guidance from the UK's online safety watchdog today on what constitutes “highly effective age assurance” in the effort to keep children away ... (more story)

In close vote, EU lawmakers choose Gencarelli as next data protection chief January 16, 2025 | Júlia Tar

EU lawmakers voted for Bruno Gencarelli to be the next European Data Protection Supervisor, the lead data protection watchdog for EU institutions. The vote followed a hearing in which members of the European P... (more story)

Google defends child location tracking service in South Korean court appeal January 16, 2025 | Jenny Lee

Google Korea argued before a Seoul court today that its child location tracking service "Family Link" complies with South Korean law by obtaining parental consent, challenging regulatory sanctions that demand ... (more story)

Singapore mandates age checks on app stores to shield kids January 16, 2025 | Jet Damazo-Santos

Singapore is expanding its online-safety measures to app stores, which will soon have to implement age-assurance measures — including through artificial intelligence — to prevent children from accessing inappr... (more story)

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Google gets ominous disbarment warning as Epic antitrust claims ramp up January 16, 2025 | Mike Swift

With another round of antitrust litigation between Epic Games and Google ramping up – and a new participant, Samsung, at its heart – a federal judge advised Google today that its conduct on evidence discovery ... (more story)

US FTC has opportunity to crack down on data brokers with new national security law January 16, 2025 | Madeline Hughes

The US Federal Trade Commission was tasked by Congress this summer with ensuring data brokers do not sell American data to foreign adversaries. Now it has received one of its first complaints under that law fr... (more story)

Probe of Tools for Humanity's biometric data collection a priority in Brazil January 16, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Brazil's National Data Protection Authority not only confirmed an ongoing investigation into Tools for Humanity, a company linked to OpenAI that's behind the advanced Orb camera technology used to collect eye ... (more story)

UK plan for AI training on medical data faces privacy hurdle over anonymity January 16, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

UK plans to promote AI by making healthcare datasets available for AI model training have prompted data protection concerns, with a struggle expected in ensuring true anonymity in datasets. Experts argue the U... (more story)

Meta’s content-moderation changes continue to spark action in UK, Brazil January 16, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

Big Tech’s policy changes for content moderation are still triggering action by authorities around the world. These include a disinformation probe opened by a UK parliamentary committee yesterday, and a statem... (more story)

'Day of reckoning': Daniel’s Law spawns new battleground for privacy rights in US January 15, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

A New Jersey law meant to protect the personal information of public officials and their family members is being weaponized against a range of industries. With the absence of a comprehensive federal privacy la... (more story)

US FTC says it has authority to modify Meta 2020 privacy settlement; new Chair agrees January 14, 2025 | Mike Swift

Despite the US Federal Trade Commission releasing an order in recent days that is has the legal authority to reopen a 2020 privacy settlement and seek additional sanctions against Meta Platforms, the agency ma... (more story)

How AI reshapes regulatory approach, privacy compliance in South Korea January 14, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee

Navigating South Korea’s privacy regulations is increasingly complex for both companies and the regulator due to the vast amount of data required to develop artificial intelligence services and the growing com... (more story)