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Meta’s Section 230 defense questioned by Mass. high court
Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court were deeply skeptical Friday of Meta Platforms’ argument that Section 230 of the US Communications Decency Act ... (more story)
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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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Australia’s online safety regulator has admitted she initially had reservations about the country’s upcoming social media ban for children under 16. At a conference in Belgium, Australian eSafety Commissioner ... (more story)
South Korea is rolling out on-site inspections and internal security checks at hundreds of telecom and e-commerce operators, including platforms caught up in recent mega-breaches such as Coupang, as it moves t... (more story)
Lawyers for Aliaksandr Klimenka, a Belarusian man accused by US prosecutors of controlling the BTC-e money-laundering platform, asked a federal judge in San Francisco Friday to compel the government to turn ov... (more story)
Plaintiffs seeking to depose Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced doubts before a US appeals court that they had exhausted alternative witness options before seeking the top executive’s testimony in a laws... (more story)
The US strategy on protecting supply chains would benefit from a more precise management of economic sectors that are truly a national security priority, analysts said at a Friday event following the release o... (more story)
Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court were deeply skeptical Friday of Meta Platforms’ argument that Section 230 of the US Communications Decency Act protects it from a state lawsuit alleging har... (more story)
The EU’s digital simplification package won broad backing from digital ministers on Friday, but governments said that overlapping obligations still undermine compliance. Delegations at a ministerial meeting wa... (more story)
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)
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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)