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US judge has tough questions for DOJ over fired PCLOB members April 30, 2025 | Madeline Hughes

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton today peppered the US Department of Justice with questions about why President Donald Trump fired the Democratic members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board an... (more story)

Big Tech primary beneficiary of targeted ads, Meta documents in US FTC trial say April 30, 2025 | Chris May

Companies like Facebook are the primary beneficiaries of targeted advertising, and the benefits to the wider US economy, small businesses and individuals are “marginal,” according to internal Meta Platforms su... (more story)

Software firm avoids prosecution by cooperating in US export controls case April 30, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

The US Justice Department announced today it has declined to prosecute Universities Space Research Association after the software nonprofit company self-disclosed wrongdoing committed by a former employee and ... (more story)

US FTC alleges bad-faith discovery tactics by Amazon in 'dark patterns' case April 30, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

At a hearing in the US Federal Trade Commission’s “dark patterns” case against Amazon, the two sides clashed over what the FTC said was a massive, last-minute document dump by the tech giant. The agency now pl... (more story)

Google CEO slams forced sale of Chrome as 'de facto' divestiture of search April 30, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google, told a US federal judge today the government’s proposal to hive off its Chrome browser as a remedy in a monopolization suit is “so far-reaching” that it is a “... (more story)

EU solar security at risk from use of Chinese inverters, industry lobby warns April 30, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi

EU solar-panel makers and the bloc's power grid need regulatory intervention to reduce its dangerous exposure to Chinese-manufactured photovoltaic inverters, devices needed to connect panels to the electricity... (more story)

Microsoft urges EU, US to wrap up e-evidence talks April 30, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter and Matthew Newman

Microsoft is pushing the EU and US to conclude talks on accessing electronic evidence in criminal investigations. The company's President Brad Smith told journalists today that negotiators should conclude talk... (more story)

EU cybersecurity agency and crisis response hub in focus of new compromise April 30, 2025 | Júlia Tar

Revised measures to enhance political and operational coordination during cyber incidents are in the focus of a new compromise text on the EU's plan for cybersecurity crisis management. The document, seen by M... (more story)

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Fourth Amendment concerns persist as US appeals court rules on geofence case April 30, 2025 | Madeline Hughes

There is an outstanding question of whether a warrant served to a private company to aid law enforcement is a personal search under the Fourth Amendment after the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dec... (more story)

Privacy, AI leaders use IAPP global summit to grasp scale of regulatory change April 29, 2025 | MLex Staff

Among the world's leading privacy and artificial intelligence lawyers, regulators, tech leaders and academics at the 2025 IAPP Global Privacy Summit last week, talk was frequently about how jarringly different... (more story)

US FTC’s guidance reappearing on website, COPPA enforcement emerges as priority April 28, 2025 | Madeline Hughes

Business guidance issued by the US Federal Trade Commission during former President Joe Biden’s time in office is starting to reappear on the agency’s website. Eight guidance posts about children’s privacy — i... (more story)

Pegasus owner NSO to face Meta in US trial over damages for security breach April 25, 2025 | Xu Yuan and Mike Swift

NSO Group Technologies will face a federal jury in California next week that will decide the damages NSO owes Meta Platforms to fix a security breach caused by its Pegasus spyware used to spy on some 1,400 Wha... (more story)

Online platforms can expect focus on algorithms under UK child safety codes April 25, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

Online platforms can expect increased scrutiny over how their algorithms serve up content to children under final UK codes of practice released yesterday. While they will take time to digest the 1,700 pages of... (more story)

South Korea privacy chief looks forward to rollout of pioneering MyData initiative April 24, 2025 | Jenny Lee and Mike Swift

South Korea’s privacy commissioner, Ko Hak-soo, sat down with MLex on the sidelines of the IAPPs Global Privacy Summit to discuss next steps in the country’s trailblazing “MyData” initiative, a sweeping effort... (more story)

How do UK plans to upgrade cybersecurity rules measure up to EU's NIS2? (update*) April 24, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

UK companies this week finally received an outline of proposed cybersecurity reforms expected later this year. The UK aims to align its cybersecurity framework with the EU's NIS2 directive through the forthcom... (more story)

Canadian privacy commissioner sees progress in probes of TikTok, OpenAI April 23, 2025 | Mike Swift

Philippe Dufresne, the privacy commissioner of Canada, sat down with MLex to discuss the progress of the investigations of OpenAI and TikTok, his plans for hosting the G7 meeting of privacy regulators in Ottaw... (more story)