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DOJ’s Hamer leaving Antitrust Division less than a year into job
Mark Hamer, a top enforcer in the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, is departing the agency less than a year after he was appointed deputy assistant at... (more story)
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Roblox, Discord, Snap, Meta face sprawling US litigation claiming child sexual assault
Roblox, Discord, Snap and Meta Platforms are facing new multidistrict litigation alleging they facilitated sexual predators' assaults against children on their plat... (more story)
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Google agrees to settle US Android cellular data suit for $135 million
Google has agreed to pay $135 million to settle long-running litigation over its appropriation of cellular data transmitted to the company from Android smartphones,... (more story)
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Mark Hamer, a top enforcer in the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, is departing the agency less than a year after he was appointed deputy assistant attorney general in charge of civil litigation ... (more story)
Meta Platforms was ordered Monday by a New Mexico judge to turn over a highly scrutinized and previously privileged document in the state’s case against the social media platform.
Meta Platforms is challenging its supervisory fee for Instagram and Facebook under the EU’s Digital Services Act for 2025, MLex has learned. The company filed its challenge on Feb. 4 at the EU's lower-tier General Court.
The record fine given to short-video app Kuaishou is prompting questions about how the Chinese internet regulator exercised its discretionary power. The Beijing Internet Information Office said Friday that the... (more story)
KakaoPay has been ordered to pay roughly 13 billion won ($8.9 million) in administrative penalties in a new enforcement action, adding to sanctions already imposed by South Korea’s privacy regulator, after the... (more story)
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi led her party to a landslide victory in Sunday’s general election, securing more than two-thirds of the lower house. The resounding success will likely bring a sense of s... (more story)
With a jury of six men and six women chosen Friday, the first bellwether trial in which a private plaintiff will argue that Meta Platforms and Google's YouTube were illegally designed to be addictive to young ... (more story)
As he unveiled Connecticut's annual privacy enforcement report under the state Data Privacy Act, state Attorney General William Tong issued pointed warnings to the makers of AI chatbots that interact with chil... (more story)
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State attorneys general have taken on Big Tobacco and opioids, garnering industry-changing settlements. They're now using the same playbook on a novel subject — social media — with the first of many expected t... (more story)
WhatsApp Ireland is set to learn next week whether it can challenge a decision by a group of EU data protection authorities before the EU courts — a precedent-setting ruling that could unblock related appeals ... (more story)
Data protection authorities across Europe and EU bodies flagged a considerable increase in data protection complaints in 2025, marking a record year for many. Authorities believe this may be driven by the wide... (more story)
The European Commission’s proposed changes to the definition of personal data in the digital simplification package — dubbed the Digital Omnibus — should be addressed in a broader debate along with an impact a... (more story)
The unrest in Minnesota is becoming a part of the national conversation about data, privacy and free speech online. A recent hearing on free speech, new legislation and letters to companies asking about their ... (more story)
Addictive-design claims are spreading beyond social media, with plaintiffs now pressing the theory against video game makers in federal court.
A legal challenge over UK regulator Ofcom's refusal to disclose information about engagement with tech companies adds pressure as it implements the Online Safety Act. Brought by campaign group Clean Up The Int... (more story)
A dispute over scraped performance data from pachinko machines, a popular arcade-style gambling game in Japan, has produced an early test of how far Japan’s unfair competition “data IP” concept can be used to ... (more story)