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SK Telecom faces mounting class-action lawsuits over massive data breach May 16, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee

SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom operator, is facing a growing wave of class actions following a massive data breach affecting more than 24 million of its users — nearly half of South Korea’s populati... (more story)

Australian children's privacy code may tackle targeted ads, location tracking May 16, 2025 | Saloni Sinha

Targeted advertising and location tracking by apps and businesses are among the issues about which Australia’s privacy regulator is seeking feedback from children, young people and parents as it develops the c... (more story)

Google seeks to limit testimony of prominent technologist in looming US privacy trial May 16, 2025 | Mike Swift

Google asked a federal judge in San Francisco today to limit the testimony of the prominent tech writer Bruce Schneier during a forthcoming federal privacy trial over the company's allegedly illegal tracking o... (more story)

US FTC faces further cuts to fix 'bloated' spending, Ferguson tells Congress May 15, 2025 | Mike Swift

The US Federal Trade Commission is cutting its workforce by about 200 employees, or 15 percent, to rein in "bloated" overspending that pushed its workforce over 1,300 employees following a "two-year hiring spr... (more story)

Flo Health settlement with Flurry gets US judge’s nod as Meta, Google near trial May 15, 2025 | Xu Yuan

Users of Flo Health, a period and pregnancy tracking app, have received the initial approval of a US federal judge for a proposed $3.5 million settlement with Flurry, one of the defendants the users sued over ... (more story)

Ferguson says US FTC needs more resources to enforce intimate deepfakes law, AI agenda May 15, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

The Federal Trade Commission will need new funding and technical infrastructure to enforce a pending federal ban on non-consensual AI-generated pornography, Chairman Andrew Ferguson told lawmakers today, warni... (more story)

Tech platforms expected to conduct risk review on minors under EU’s DSA May 15, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter

All platforms under the EU’s Digital Services Act are expected to carry out a risk review on potential harms posed to minors using their sites. With this exercise, online platforms should understand how their ... (more story)

Checks on AI's impact on data protection taken ‘very seriously,’ Irish official says May 15, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi

Conducting a data protection impact assessment for AI systems is a fundamental compliance requirement under the GDPR and should not be treated as a mere tick-the-box exercise, said Cian O’Brien, Ireland’s Depu... (more story)

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NSO $168 million verdict highlights Google quandary in quantifying value of privacy May 14, 2025 | Mike Swift

The $168 million verdict that a federal jury in California handed out last week to NSO Group Technologies underscores the challenge of putting a dollar value on privacy. WhatsApp’s lawyers in the case recommen... (more story)

US states push for mental health warning labels in targeting social media harm May 12, 2025 | Xu Yuan

Legislation that would require social media companies to display a warning about the potential mental health harms for social media use has been introduced in several US states, in the latest effort to battle ... (more story)

A hundred days into US FTC under new chairman, don't call leadership regulators May 09, 2025 | Mike Swift and Ilana Kowarski

Last week marked 100 days since the start of Andrew Ferguson’s leadership of the US Federal Trade Commission, and while the new chairman has frequently talked the talk of a full-throated Trump populist, the wa... (more story)

Age-verification regulation at EU level is needed, Danish minister Stage says May 09, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter

Social media platforms’ age verification — intended to keep children out — needs to be regulated at the EU level, Denmark's digital minister told MLex in an interview. Caroline Stage Olsen said that platforms ... (more story)

Australian government could use electoral mandate to revive dormant policy May 08, 2025 | James Panichi

The center-left government of Australia has been returned to office with an enhanced electoral majority, handing it a mandate to push ahead with key policies outlined over the past three years. Prominent candi... (more story)

Surveillance pricing faces judicial review in US as cases target broad data collection May 07, 2025 | Mike Swift

With the US Federal Trade Commission and lawmakers in California and elsewhere scrutinizing “surveillance pricing” practices, private litigation is also starting to target that nascent practice, where retailer... (more story)

Meta’s $168 million US court win has implications for digital surveillance May 06, 2025 | Xu Yuan and Mike Swift

Unconvinced by NSO Group Technologies’ argument that it couldn’t – and shouldn’t – pay punitive damages for using WhatsApp to plant its Pegasus software on unsuspecting surveillance targets around the world, a... (more story)

Meta ramps up pressure tactics for UK nod to its ad-free subscription model May 06, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo and Frank Hersey

Meta Platforms is hoping to get the UK data privacy regulator on board with its plans for an ad-free subscription version of its social media products for the British market in coming months. The US tech giant... (more story)