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Canadian privacy commissioner eyes fines, consent changes in Facebook case
Philippe Dufresne, who heads the Office of the Privacy Commission of Canada, sat down with MLex on the sidelines of an international privacy conference for an exclu... (more story)
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California’s data broker deletion tool gains users, interest from other states
More than 260,000 Californians have used the state’s new DROP platform to demand that data brokers delete their personal information, as officials say the platform ... (more story)
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Singapore, Ireland data protection regulators grapple with digital sovereignty
As countries embrace the concept of digital sovereignty—the political view that a nation or region should control its entire digital stack—data protection authoriti... (more story)
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Greece plans to ban social media use for under-15s by 2027, joining France and other EU member states in increasing pressure on the EU to adopt a bloc-wide approach. In response, the European Commission signal... (more story)
KakaoPay returned to court on Thursday after judges in South Korea reopened arguments to probe lingering questions over the legal framework behind the privacy watchdog’s sanctions, with the payment giant and t... (more story)
China’s small-scale personal-information handlers are preparing for draft rules that would simplify data-protection requirements, as regulators seek to lower compliance costs and support innovation among small... (more story)
Following a setback in an appeals court, the US is trying to fend off a renewed bid by Meta Platforms to stop the Federal Trade Commission from revisiting proceedings that may result in Meta being banned from ... (more story)
The UK government has named Ian Cheshire as its preferred candidate to chair Ofcom, with the communications regulator welcoming the move ahead of a parliamentary hearing next week. Cheshire, who formerly chair... (more story)
Professional social network LinkedIn was accused in a new lawsuit filed in California of invading users’ privacy by implementing intrusive mechanisms that are aimed at preventing abusive practices such as website scraping.
An expert witness testifying for the District of Columbia in its lawsuit against Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica data breach will be heard at a Daubert hearing next month, Associate Judge Robert Okun of ... (more story)
The EU data access framework for banking and financial services could move forward after months of deadlock, with EU countries expected to provide feedback by April 10 on the way forward, MLex has learned. In ... (more story)
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The government is putting more pressure on tech companies to make more detailed and accurate reports to the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s CyberTipline. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck... (more story)
UK regulators' handling of children’s data and enforcement of the Online Safety Act deserves criticism, prominent UK lawmaker Beeban Kidron has said, while warning of a government push for overly broad legisla... (more story)
Despite the US Federal Trade Commission’s recent guidance on deploying age-verification technology to identify users under 13 years old in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, companie... (more story)
Meta Platforms’ exposure to a potential settlement in a German consumer action over a Facebook data leak is emerging as a key test of how far collective redress under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulatio... (more story)
When privacy professionals descended on Washington, DC, this week, they knew they were walking into a conference focused equally on privacy and artificial intelligence. But they may not have anticipated a loom... (more story)
The National Data Protection Agency has begun enforcing Brazil’s child online safety law, and the agency's president told MLex in an exclusive interview that the watchdog will not interfere with tech firms’ ag... (more story)
Philippe Dufresne, who heads the Office of the Privacy Commission of Canada, sat down with MLex on the sidelines of an international privacy conference for an exclusive interview on his view of possible next s... (more story)
Outgoing CADE President Gustavo de Lima said he leaves Brazil’s competition authority with a stronger record on settlements and a marked expansion in unilateral conduct enforcement and digital markets, while k... (more story)