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Prospective head of US DOJ Antitrust Division commits to 'cautious' enforcement August 05, 2026 | Chris May

Adam Candeub, the Trump administration's pick to run the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, told US senators on Wednesday that any decisions to use the "very blunt instrument" of antitrust law must be ma... (more story)

Kids Online Safety Act advanced by US Senate committee with duty-of-care provision August 05, 2026 | Madeline Hughes and Emma Whitford

The US Senate Commerce Committee unanimously advanced its version of the Kids Online Safety Act, which has been pending for years, by a voice vote Wednesday, as senators hope to build a broader kids online saf... (more story)

TikTok ruling on child-privacy fine sets precedent for online platforms, UK ICO says August 05, 2026 | Imogen Howse

A court ruling against TikTok sets an important precedent for online platforms, the UK Information Commissioner's Office said, after judges rejected the company's argument that the ICO lacked the legal authori... (more story)

China sets first mandatory safety standard for higher-level automated driving August 05, 2026 | MLex Staff

China has unveiled its first mandatory national safety standard for higher-level autonomous driving systems, setting a unified regulatory baseline that could accelerate the commercialization of self-driving ve... (more story)

Meta faces India scrutiny over takedown of Modi post, CSAM ads August 05, 2026 | Freny Patel

Meta's moderation failures have prompted India to summon senior executives for compliance talks after the platform briefly removed a post from Prime Minister Narendra and allegedly carried child sexual abuse m... (more story)

US Senators to unveil bill to tackle surveillance pricing ‘soon’ August 04, 2026 | Madeline Hughes

US Senator Josh Hawley is planning to unveil bipartisan legislation to combat surveillance pricing — the “scam” of companies from Jet Blue to Walmart setting different prices for different customers at the sam... (more story)

US appeals court mulls constitutionality of Texas app store law August 04, 2026 | Mike Swift

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dug into debate Tuesday over the constitutionality of the Texas App Store Accountability Act, with the court hearing argument on whether app... (more story)

Discord, Telegram targeted in Brazil after live broadcast of 13-year-old's death August 04, 2026 | Henrique Santiago

Brazil’s Digital Rights Secretariat detailed how groups operating on Discord and Telegram allegedly approached underage girls and encouraged violent behavior, leading to the livestreamed suicide of a minor.  A... (more story)

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As platforms escape EU legal limbo over CSAM rules, uncertainty still lurks August 05, 2026 | Júlia Tar

A restored legal framework for online platforms to voluntarily detect child sexual abuse material under revived interim EU rules ended months of uncertainty that left companies taking different compliance appr... (more story)

Meta’s litigation bill mounts; next legal hit could reach $6 billion August 03, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo and Mike Swift

Meta faces a potential $6 billion damages bill from a landmark privacy verdict over reproductive-health data collected from Flo app users, adding to mounting litigation costs already weighing on the company’s earnings.

Reddit’s US claims against Perplexity AI, scraper survive under DMCA reading July 31, 2026 | Emma Whitford

Reddit can pursue US Digital Millennium Copyright Act claims against answer engine Perplexity AI and web scraper SerpApi, as it continues to fight a data scraping practice useful in artificial intelligence mod... (more story)

New Calif. data broker platform to begin work as states tighten regulations July 31, 2026 | Xu Yuan

Beginning in August, California’s new, powerful platform targeting data brokers will start processing consumers’ requests to delete all their personal data, as the state continuously seeks to step up the prote... (more story)

Deadlock over key appointments unlikely to constrain Brazil's privacy watchdog July 30, 2026 | Henrique Santiago

The National Data Protection Agency (ANPD) will face the departure of two of its longest-serving officials: Waldemar Gonçalves Ortunho Júnior, the watchdog's president, will officially leave office on Nov. 6, ... (more story)

US Senate, House take different paths for social media as clock runs down July 30, 2026 | Madeline Hughes

The possible inclusion of a duty-of-care for social media companies will likely prevent US congressional action to craft new regulations this year governing social media, as the Senate and House are working on... (more story)

xAI challenge to California AI training transparency law has national significance July 29, 2026 | Mike Swift

A federal appeals court is poised to consider xAI's novel challenge to California's Generative AI Training Data Transparency Act, which requires high-level disclosures about model-training datasets. xAI argues... (more story)

What will the UK tech ministry's abolition mean for policy and regulation? July 27, 2026 | Imogen Howse and Patricia Figueiredo

Shutting down the UK government's technology department is expected to slow policymaking and fragment coordination across AI, cybersecurity and online safety, even as AI policy moves closer to the center of go... (more story)