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DOGE activities at US Treasury to remain halted for now, judge rules February 15, 2025 | Madeline Hughes, Samuel Rubenfeld, Maria Dinzeo

A US judge upheld a temporary restraining order barring Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing personal data at the Treasury Department, keeping the restriction in place as federal cour... (more story)

US FTC compiling list of probationary employees as government eyes cuts February 15, 2025 | Khushita Vasant and Chris May

US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson has directed senior management to make a list of employees currently serving on probation as the government's Office of Personnel Management advocates for c... (more story)

Role of swapped BTC-e operator unclear in looming US trial of second defendant February 15, 2025 | Mike Swift and Samuel Rubenfeld

Alexander Vinnik, who pleaded guilty to running the BTC-e money laundering platform that federal prosecutors said processed billions of dollars from global cyberattacks, was returned to Russia this week in a p... (more story)

Chinese app DeepSeek facing privacy investigation in Texas February 14, 2025 | Amy Miller

Texas is the first US state to announce an investigation into DeepSeek, the Chinese-owned artificial intelligence application, and the state attorney general is demanding Google and Apple cooperate. Texas has ... (more story)

US FTC chairman blasts ABA for 'radical left' views, 'capture' by Big Tech February 14, 2025 | Chris May

US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson moved to sever links between the agency and the American Bar Association today, blasting the group’s “apparent capture” by Big Tech and its promotion of "ra... (more story)

TikTok is back on Apple, Google app stores February 14, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

Google and Apple have reinstated TikTok to their app stores, an action that published reports attributed to guidance from the US attorney general.  

US FTC's Ferguson pushes action to make it easier to remove commissioners February 14, 2025 | Claude Marx

US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said he plans to ask the FTC to endorse the US Department of Justice’s position that the president should be allowed to remove members of regulatory commiss... (more story)

EU could put cars, chemicals and more into a tariff deal with US, Demarty says February 14, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska

Cars, chemicals, ceramics and textiles are examples of products that the EU could include in a deal with the US on "reciprocal" tariffs, Jean-Luc Demarty, a former head of the European Commission's trade depar... (more story)

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UK's two-phase approach to online porn age assurance raises enforcement doubts February 14, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

Pornography websites saw the UK online safety regulator recently lay out new obligations to verify the ages of users to stop children getting in. For some, Ofcom said, enforcement would start immediately. But ... (more story)

Pressure mounts on Europe to address US shakeup of data privacy board February 13, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo, Matthew Newman, Mike Swift

A data-transfer pact between the US and Europe faces mounting scrutiny after President Trump fired three members of a key oversight body that keeps US surveillance measures in check. Privacy advocates and EU l... (more story)

US Big Tech sees more clarity on GDPR enforcement after EU court ruling February 11, 2025 | Matthew Newman and Júlia Tar

Meta Platforms and other US tech companies caught in a regulatory tug-of-war between the Irish and European privacy watchdogs have more legal clarity on how an umbrella group of EU data protection authorities ... (more story)

China's retaliation playbook puts US giants on guard February 11, 2025 | MLex Staff

China's targeting of US giants Nvidia and Google is clearly a warning shot fired by Beijing amid escalating trade conflicts with Washington. The pressing question: Who's next? So far, the companies targeted by... (more story)

Google, Meta, Snap, Pinterest among tech platforms warning of loss of teen data February 11, 2025 | Mike Swift

Governments are increasingly ordering a hands-off approach to the personal data of teens, Google, Meta Platforms, Snap and Pinterest warned investors in their most recent annual securities filings. Those tech ... (more story)

US states continue to see surge in legislation to curb children’s Internet use February 10, 2025 | Xu Yuan

As US courts, including the Supreme Court, continue to scrutinize one state law after another that imposes requirements on websites, apps and other Internet platforms to protect children and teenagers from onl... (more story)

Trump’s tariff blackmail faces pushback for provoking uncertainty and chaos February 10, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska

Donald Trump shows himself ready to use tariffs not only in a traditional way to win economic concessions, but also to force policy change. Businesses worldwide should therefore brace for an even more uncertai... (more story)

Privacy suits against US DOGE action rely on Watergate-era law February 07, 2025 | Madeline Hughes

A rarely used Watergate-era privacy law has been revived as groups sue to halt US Department of Government Efficiency access to Americans’ sensitive information. The Treasury Department, the Office of Personne... (more story)