A blanket social-media ban wouldn’t solve the EU’s child-safety challenges, Jörg Fegert, one of two experts who drafted the EU expert panel’s July report on child safety online, told MLex days before a new EU ... (more story)

Flock Safety, the operator of a nationwide network of cameras that capture motor vehicle information, is facing increasing lawsuits amid a public outcry over privacy concerns arising from what plaintiffs call ... (more story)

Meta Platforms is heading back to court against New Mexico just weeks after a $942 million loss to the state, this time over Facebook's handling of user data during the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal.

A far narrower version of a bill intended to curb California Invasion of Privacy Act litigation has cleared the state Legislature. While it won’t shut off the spigot of lawsuits, it will eliminate some of the ... (more story)

The US has a long list of issues that have become outstanding challenges in trade negotiations with Canada and Mexico and are preventing the closing of a deal, including disputes over cheese, cars, foreign lan... (more story)

From Seoul to Singapore and London to Brussels, Meta Platforms’ landmark settlement with 51 US jurisdictions in August has reverberated globally, prompting calls for similar child-protection requirements elsew... (more story)

Google persuaded a US judge not to break up its adtech business, putting the European Commission in an awkward position of deciding whether to settle for the same solution or push for an asset sale and risk a ... (more story)

California’s child online-safety push is entering a more mature phase, as lawmakers use lessons from years of litigation and earlier legislation to tighten age-assurance rules, revive privacy protections, regu... (more story)