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Chinese regulator to escalate oversight of online recommendation algorithms May 22, 2025 | MLex Staff

Oversight of information recommendation algorithms in China will strengthen, following last year’s campaign led by the country's Internet regulator, underscoring that algorithm governance is a long-term, syste... (more story)

Japanese parliament approves Satoru Tezuka as new data protection chief May 22, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki

Keio University Professor Satoru Tezuka received parliamentary approval today to become Japan’s new data protection chief. After securing support from the Upper House yesterday, lawmakers in the Lower House ap... (more story)

SK Telecom's leaked user data traced to Singapore, PIPC chief says May 22, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee

Personal data leaked in the recent hacking attack on SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, has been traced to Singapore, raising the need for international cooperation with foreign privacy authorit... (more story)

US DOJ exploring quality of privacy protection as aspect of competition, official says May 22, 2025 | Mike Swift

As the US Department of Justice scrutinizes digital markets for antitrust problems, the agency is considering the quality of consumers’ privacy protections as one element of competition, a senior DOJ official ... (more story)

EU GDPR procedural rules not finalized today, agreement over deadlines failed May 21, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter

The EU's GDPR procedural regulation hasn't been finalized at tonight's negotiations between the European Parliament and the EU governments, an EU source told MLex. The meeting was supposed to wrap up the new l... (more story)

Journalist’s widow loses appeal in US Pegasus surveillance suit May 21, 2025 | Xu Yuan

Hanan Khashoggi, the widow of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, failed to revive a lawsuit on appeal in the US against the owner of Pegasus spyware that allegedly was used to surveil on her.

Illegally fired PCLOB members must be reinstated, US judge rules May 21, 2025 | Madeline Hughes

The two Democrats appointed to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board were illegally fired and must be reinstated, a Washington, DC, federal judge ruled today.

TikTok devoted to data for videos and ads, not artistic expression, UK court told May 21, 2025 | Frank Hersey

TikTok’s claims to be a “free expression service” and “special purposes impresario” were challenged in court by the UK data protection authority on the third and final trial day of the video-sharing platform’s... (more story)

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Belgian ruling on IAB Europe’s adtech consent framework divides opinion May 21, 2025 | Júlia Tar

Adtech association IAB Europe saw a Belgian court uphold a fine of 250,000 euros against it last week for breaching EU data protection rules, confirming its role as a joint controller of consent data collected... (more story)

California is rethinking its wiretapping law, but will it let Big Tech off the hook? May 21, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

A bill quickly moving through the California Senate promises to protect small businesses from a wave of privacy lawsuits being brought under a decades-old anti-wiretapping law. But is it giving a free pass to Big Tech?

NSO cites dire implications of Pegasus injunction sought by Meta following US jury award May 20, 2025 | Xu Yuan

On the heels of a $168 million award by a US jury to Meta Platforms for its hacking into Meta’s instant-messaging app WhatsApp, the owner of spyware Pegasus faces a potentially even bigger battle that it argue... (more story)

Clearview AI asks appeals court to erase privacy suit on free speech grounds May 19, 2025 | Mike Swift

Clearview AI told a California appeals court that its searchable facial-recognition database for law enforcement is protected free speech under the state's Anti-SLAPP law. The controversial facial recognition ... (more story)

US appeals court questions suggest CFPB to be left in tatters May 19, 2025 | Neil Roland

US appeals court judges fired skeptical questions at the union lawyer challenging the Trump administration’s mass layoffs at the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – suggesting that the beleaguered agency... (more story)

AI’s novel risks, facial recognition, child safety keeping UK privacy chief busy May 19, 2025 | Frank Hersey

AI is an unstoppable technology that is revealing whole new landscapes of concern for data protection, the UK's chief privacy regulator said in a wide-ranging speech in his native New Zealand. Live facial reco... (more story)

Wikimedia lawsuit set to test how UK Online Safety Act classifies risky services May 19, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

Wikimedia's legal challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act is poised to be a landmark test of how the law categorizes services, and thus imposes duties on them, and highlights growing concerns among platforms i... (more story)

Blocks on German porn sites put spotlight on shifting age-assurance landscape May 16, 2025 | Júlia Tar

Germany’s court-ordered blocks of Pornhub and YouPorn over missing age-verification measures highlight growing regulatory pressure on adult platforms — and test the limits of enforcement under the EU’s Digital... (more story)