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Media Matters win against US FTC paves way for GDI success on investigative demand
The Global Disinformation Index, or GDI, has joined Media Matters in asking a US court to curb the Federal Trade Commission’s probe into an alleged advertiser boyco... (more story)
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Illuminate Education agrees to overhaul data security in US FTC settlement
Education-technology provider Illuminate Education has agreed to overhaul its cybersecurity practices under a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission, after... (more story)
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US House taking up children’s online safety proposals, COPPA 2.0 preemption
A US House panel is set to consider legislation next week that could implement sweeping changes to privacy anda online safety policies for children and teenagers by... (more story)
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New Zealand’s privacy regulator says its future direction will be driven by the need to “find and maintain” a balance between compliance and expectation-setting activities. In a conference speech, Privacy Comm... (more story)
ByteDance’s preview of an agentic-AI assistant built into ZTE’s upcoming Nubia M153 smartphone has triggered immediate pushback from Chinese app developers and raised regulatory concerns. Developers reported a... (more story)
A federal judge seemed unconvinced at a hearing Thursday that Shopify acted as a hidden data interceptor during routine online transactions.
A federal judge in San Francisco said the settlement proposal by Google and Flo Health to pay a collective $56 million to settle allegations over Flo's sharing of women's reproductive health data with Google a... (more story)
Representatives from a wide variety of industries called on the US government to keep the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement but differed over whether Section 232 tariffs are necessary to help North American companies... (more story)
A state court judge in California has given permission to competing expert testimony on the usage of social media apps by plaintiffs suing Meta Platforms, ByteDance, Google and Snap in litigation over the plat... (more story)
European judges have been asked whether the transfer of personal banking data to the US under a bilateral agreement violates the EU’s privacy rules. The case has attracted attention because of diverse decision... (more story)
UK lawmakers have expressed fears for the crucial agreement that allows the flow of data between the UK and EU due to imminent changes to EU privacy law, warning that time is running out for EU member states t... (more story)
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Is ClaimsHero the next generation of law firm, a tech law disruptor built on social media technology that will serve consumers better than existing class-action Big Tech settlements that typically provide cons... (more story)
The Indian government has scrapped its directive mandating the "Sanchar Saathi" cybersecurity app on new smartphones after just five days. Despite claiming "increasing acceptance," the swift U-turn — forced by... (more story)
Investment funds engaging in for-profit support of court cases aren't likely to see any EU-wide regulatory action in the short term. The European Commission appears to see no reason to intervene, and for now i... (more story)
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is set to be the first state appellate court to hear arguments of whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields Meta Platforms from a lawsuit alleging i... (more story)
Mississippi is enforcing the toughest online-safety law in the nation, and so far, neither the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit nor the US Supreme Court has said why they've allowed it to go forward. ... (more story)
The nature of the Federal Trade Commission and presidential power will be at issue on Dec. 8 as the Supreme Court hears the case in which former Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter challenges her firing by Pr... (more story)
A US House panel is set to consider legislation next week that could implement sweeping changes to privacy anda online safety policies for children and teenagers by not only creating new policies, but also pre... (more story)
Private industry is pushing for a longer-term fix for the cybersecurity sharing law that allows companies to share intelligence without fear of violating antitrust law, because uncertainty shrouding the sharin... (more story)