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Chinese government unveils sweeping measures to tighten app oversight
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will adopt a series of measures to tighten app governance amid a broader push to protect personal data, a se... (more story)
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Meta questions Indian watchdog's jurisdiction in data-privacy showdown
Meta Platforms has challenged the jurisdiction of the Indian antitrust watchdog as it confronts the penalty imposed over WhatsApp's privacy policy. The social-media... (more story)
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Google, Meta, OpenAI, others hit by US FTC investigative demand over chatbots
The US Federal Trade Commission has ordered seven leading AI firms — Google-parent Alphabet, Meta Platforms, xAI, OpenAI, Snap, Instagram and Character Technologies... (more story)
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The UK privacy chief said his office will continue to focus resources on cases with the “greatest impact,” despite criticism over its decision not to investigate the Ministry of Defence’s Afghan data breach. S... (more story)
The EU's pioneering gatekeeper law will be back under study by judges again next month, when lawyers for Apple seek to overturn the company’s designation under the Digital Markets Act as a crucial platform for... (more story)
At the Global Privacy Assembly in Seoul, privacy regulators and experts called for a shift from broad principles to concrete enforcement in governing artificial intelligence, warning that fragmented national a... (more story)
South Korea has formally recognized the European Union’s data-protection regime as equivalent to its own, completing a process that establishes for the first time a reciprocal framework for seamless personal d... (more story)
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will adopt a series of measures to tighten app governance amid a broader push to protect personal data, a senior official said. Speaking at a forum in Yu... (more story)
South Korea has pledged to ease regulatory hurdles for artificial intelligence developers by adopting fair-use guidelines for copyrighted content and revising related laws as early as November. The government ... (more story)
Two California bills aimed at enhancing online protection for children have passed the state legislature as the current session comes to an end and are heading to the governor for approval.
Online advertising companies, publishers, tech firms on Monday heard the European Commission's ideas for revamping the EU's rules on online cookies and when consumers should be asked for consent to use their p... (more story)
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Last week’s bombshell US whistleblower disclosures made it clear that Meta went to great lengths to shield itself from liability over any potential harm to kids and teens from its products. But its in-house la... (more story)
Class-action privacy settlements often put a monetary check before business changes, but a group of plaintiffs who alleged Google’s “Real-Time Bidding” ad auction violates their privacy say they've achieved a ... (more story)
China’s cyber police penalized French luxury house Dior for failing to meet personal-data protection obligations, in a case that sends a stark warning to companies transferring information across borders: comp... (more story)
Google was recently ordered by a US federal jury to pay $425 million in damages for violating users’ privacy by continuing to collect their data when the users thought they’d asked Google not to do so. In find... (more story)
Meta Platforms and TikTok scored procedural wins at the EU’s General Court in their appeals against a supervisory fee that was imposed in the EU's Digital Services Act, the bloc's content-moderation rules. Whi... (more story)
Two adtech companies are among the first to face privacy lawsuits alleging violations of new US national security rules that restrict the transfer of Americans’ personal data to adversary nations such as China... (more story)
Bluesky and Dreamwidth have blocked users in Mississippi following the US Supreme Court’s decision last month to allow the state's age-verification law to go into effect. While preventing kids from seeing stuf... (more story)
The outlook for UK tech businesses and those considering investment has added uncertainty after a major government reshuffle late last week. Tech minister Peter Kyle is now business and trade minister and alre... (more story)