Pornhub’s reliance on Apple age checks under investigation by UK watchdog
September 23, 2026
| Imogen Howse
Pornhub service provider Aylo is under investigation in the UK over its reliance on a new process that uses signals from Apple’s age checks to prevent children from accessing pornography. Ofcom said it would n... (more story)
AI, data rules in EU digital package should be reconsidered, consumer group says
September 23, 2026
| Júlia Tar
EU governments should reject proposed digital simplification package changes to data protection rules on artificial intelligence and pseudonymized data, the European Consumer Organization, BEUC, said Wednesday... (more story)
EU businesses urge China to adopt comprehensive AI law, ease data transfers
September 23, 2026
| MLex Staff
European businesses have called on China to enact a comprehensive artificial-intelligence law and work with the EU on mechanisms to ease cross-border data transfers, saying fragmented rules are creating uncert... (more story)
US FTC commissioners' role remains consultative post-Slaughter, Ferguson says
September 23, 2026
| Khushita Vasant
The US Supreme Court's ruling in the Trump v. Slaughter case hasn't affected how the Federal Trade Commission functions, and the role of non-chair commissioners hasn't changed much as they continue to perform ... (more story)
Judge questions adding more social media companies in addiction litigation
September 23, 2026
| Xu Yuan
A US federal judge questioned lawyers representing plaintiffs suing Discord, Roblox and X Corp. over social media addiction why the cases shouldn't be kept outside California multi-district litigation involvin... (more story)
White House isn't 'calling shots' at US FTC, Ferguson says
September 22, 2026
| Khushita Vasant
US President Donald Trump and the White House aren't "routinely instructing" the Federal Trade Commission on how to navigate the antitrust, merger and consumer protection cases the agency is working on, Chairm... (more story)
US judge finds TikTok kids' privacy settlement lacking, declines to nix 2019 order
September 22, 2026
| Mike Swift
A federal judge in Los Angeles has refused to terminate a 2019 children's privacy order against TikTok by the US Federal Trade Commission as part of a $400 million privacy settlement with TikTok announced by t... (more story)
Live Nation, Amazon cases' ‘competition flavors’ highlighted by US FTC's Mufarrige
September 22, 2026
| Chris May
Consumer protection suits against Live Nation and Amazon resemble antitrust litigation targeting anticompetitive conduct but require lower legal standards to prevail, Chris Mufarrige, director of the US Federa... (more story)