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US FTC Chairman Ferguson expects 'Humphrey’s Executor' to be overruled
US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson today defended President Donald Trump’s authority to oust two Democratic Party commissioners from the agency, s... (more story)
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Meta settles UK lawsuit over use of personal data for advertising
Meta Platforms has settled a UK lawsuit and agreed to stop using personal data from Tanya O’Carroll, a campaigner who'd argued the company's use of targeted ads did... (more story)
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China's new rules on facial recognition seek to balance security, innovation
Personal-information handlers using facial-recognition technology to process information in China are preparing for new regulations that will govern the security ma... (more story)
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Woori Card, a major South Korean credit card company, has been fined 13.5 billion won (about $9.2 million) by the country's privacy regulator for illegally using the personal data of merchant owners without pr... (more story)
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, who was recently fired as Federal Trade Commissioner, told US lawmakers today that she is worried about the fate of a lawsuit the FTC brought against pharmacy benefit managers as no si... (more story)
UK software provider Advanced, now trading as OneAdvanced, got a data breach fine lowered by 50 percent after reaching an agreement with the Information Commissioner’s Office to pay a reduced amount without an... (more story)
Tech giants OpenAI and Microsoft will continue to face copyright infringement claims, US District Judge Sidney H. Stein ordered today, in three lawsuits alleging that ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot trained il... (more story)
A week after being removed from the Federal Trade Commission by President Donald Trump, former Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter testified about the commission’s enforcement to protect children online as De... (more story)
Meta Platforms was told to retrain its online ad model to remove the historic benefits of data gathered during an antitrust abuse, according to a European Commission decision published today. In November, the ... (more story)
Brazilian and European Union authorities are close to reaching a mutual-adequacy arrangement for data flows, a senior European Commission official said today. The mutual adequacy decision “could significantly ... (more story)
A targeted GDPR simplification proposal focused on record keeping requirements for smaller companies will be presented in the coming weeks, justice commissioner Michael McGrath said today. He said that there i... (more story)
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Rulemaking in Australia is about to shut down, with the government set to call an election and usher the country into more than a month of “caretaker” mode in which no significant decisions can be made. This i... (more story)
A doxxing scandal involving the teenage daughter of a Baidu executive has fueled concerns and criticism about the tech giant's data security management. Critics are also raising alarms about the risks of insid... (more story)
Tom Kemp, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, tech investor and active policy advisor, will take the reins as executive director of the California Privacy Protection Agency on April 1. His business background is co... (more story)
Seven years ago this week, a Facebook in-house lawyer put up a blog post acknowledging a rogue app developer had shared millions of users’ data with data-mining company Cambridge Analytica, despite having no d... (more story)
Despite a six-month extension, the renewal of the EU-UK data adequacy status could still face challenges as the UK government rushes to get its Data (Use and Access) Bill ready to face scrutiny by EU officials... (more story)
The Japanese Children and Families Agency's recent decision to delay the national rollout of an artificial intelligence tool designed to detect child abuse has highlighted important lessons for Japan, where th... (more story)
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya are challenging their firings from the US Federal Trade Commission, saying President Trump's actions are illegal and potentially undermine the FTC's independent consum... (more story)
The limits of California’s “limited” private right of action under the California Consumer Privacy Act are being tested in federal court with a pair of rulings that suggest US judges may be taking a broader vi... (more story)