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Are platforms heeding warnings from UK regulators about under-13s’ data access?
Social media apps such as Meta Platforms’ Instagram or ByteDance’s TikTok have a duty not to process the data of children under 13, a senior official at the UK’s pr... (more story)
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Meta whistleblower stresses long-term UK online safety risks from US trade talks
Speculation is rife that the UK’s online safety law is a pawn in ongoing trade negotiations with the Trump administration in the US, which sees it as as a censorshi... (more story)
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KakaoPay challenges South Korean privacy watchdog after massive data transfer fine
KakaoPay has taken its fight with South Korea's privacy watchdog to court, after being hit with a fine of 6 billion won (about $4.1 million) for transferring person... (more story)
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Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom delivered trial testimony today accusing Meta Platforms’ Chief Executive and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of “starving” Instagram of vital resources and decision-making b... (more story)
UK companies providing digital identity services have voiced concern over rivalry from a government digital wallet program that could “stifle innovation” and “limit consumer choice.” A coalition of association... (more story)
OpenAI is currently under the watchful eye of South Korea's privacy regulator amid concerns over how the company's generative AI tools process personal data when users create Studio Ghibli-style images. Speaki... (more story)
Meta and TikTok have hit back at an Australian minister, following media revelations suggesting she decided to exempt YouTube from a social-media ban for under-16s while still formally consulting on the issue ... (more story)
SK Telecom is facing a fact-finding inquiry by South Korea’s privacy watchdog after detecting signs that hackers may have compromised customer information through malicious code.
WhatsApp founder Brian Acton’s sworn testimony that he wouldn't abide a pivot toward revenue-generating ads, games and “gimmicks” on the world-beating messaging app he created didn’t hold much weight compared ... (more story)
Canadian e-commerce service provider Shopify is subject to the jurisdiction of a federal court in California, a US appeals court ruled, reviving allegations that Shopify illegally tracked online shoppers in the state.
Children’s online data will be harder to sell to third parties beginning this summer under the US Federal Trade Commission’s new Children's Online Privacy Protection Act rule that is set to go into effect in s... (more story)
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In a policy speech that signaled the US Federal Trade Commission’s return to “not stretching our legal authorities,” Commissioner Melissa Holyoak unveiled the Republican majority’s data privacy vision to bolst... (more story)
Social media apps such as Meta Platforms’ Instagram or ByteDance’s TikTok have a duty not to process the data of children under 13, a senior official at the UK’s privacy watchdog told MLex in an exclusive inte... (more story)
A federal judge has tightened the standards for privacy claims under California’s wiretap law, ruling that session replay tools don’t violate the statute unless they interpret communications while in transit. ... (more story)
Federal prosecutors are increasingly using the False Claims Act (FCA) to scrutinize government contractors over cybersecurity compliance, even in the absence of actual data breaches or security incidents.
The US Department of Justice’s triumph against Google in a case challenging the tech giant’s practices in digital advertising markets opens up a question over whether states suing the company in Texas will nee... (more story)
Mark Zuckerberg, the highest-profile witness in a US Federal Trade Commission lawsuit seeking to break up Meta Platforms, offered testimony this week that will help the agency’s attempt to push forward a priva... (more story)
In the absence of a federal privacy law, a group of state regulators — including California, Connecticut and others — has launched the Consortium of Privacy Regulators to coordinate enforcement and consistent ... (more story)
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is likening his use of rulemaking power to limit children’s access to online adult content to barring the purchase of age-restricted materials like tobacco. But laws att... (more story)