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Canadian privacy commissioner eyes fines, consent changes in Facebook case
Philippe Dufresne, who heads the Office of the Privacy Commission of Canada, sat down with MLex on the sidelines of an international privacy conference for an exclu... (more story)
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California’s data broker deletion tool gains users, interest from other states
More than 260,000 Californians have used the state’s new DROP platform to demand that data brokers delete their personal information, as officials say the platform ... (more story)
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Singapore, Ireland data protection regulators grapple with digital sovereignty
As countries embrace the concept of digital sovereignty—the political view that a nation or region should control its entire digital stack—data protection authoriti... (more story)
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Claims against Meta Platforms by Massachusetts over alleged harms from its social media platforms aren't barred by immunity provided by the US Communications Decency Act, the state’s top court ruled, dealing t... (more story)
The UK government has proposed clarifications over how it would use sweeping powers to introduce child safety restrictions on online platforms, in a bid to avoid further parliamentary clashes with lawmakers pu... (more story)
EU governments have been asked to weigh in on a Cyprus compromise proposal that would potentially split how online child sexual abuse material is detected depending on the type of service, according to a text ... (more story)
China has released draft rules for digital virtual-human information services, underscoring Beijing’s dual approach of promoting innovation and use while tightening regulatory guardrails around one of the late... (more story)
Australia’s social media restrictions on under-16s are justified by the need to protect children despite burdening political communication, the government told the country’s top court in proceedings brought by... (more story)
Meta Platforms has fulfilled its child-protection obligations under Indonesian government rules, the ministry of communication and digital affairs announced, following an examination conducted early this week.... (more story)
Companies operating in South Korea will face tighter, more intrusive cybersecurity and data-protection oversight under a sweeping government plan to overhaul the country’s ISMS and ISMS-P certification regimes... (more story)
Greece plans to ban social media use for under-15s by 2027, joining France and other EU member states in increasing pressure on the EU to adopt a bloc-wide approach. In response, the European Commission signal... (more story)
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Lawsuits over the alleged misuse of patient records are spotlighting privacy gaps in the trust-based systems underpinning US health data exchanges.
Enforcement of TikTok and X by a Singapore regulator over failures to curb terrorism and child sexual abuse content, respectively, adds to efforts by regulators around the world to confront similar risks. In t... (more story)
The effectiveness of the EU’s landmark data protection rules has evolved since the entry into force of the GDPR in 2018, shifting from a focus on enforcement to driving tangible changes in companies’ behavior,... (more story)
The government is putting more pressure on tech companies to make more detailed and accurate reports to the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s CyberTipline. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck... (more story)
UK regulators' handling of children’s data and enforcement of the Online Safety Act deserves criticism, prominent UK lawmaker Beeban Kidron has said, while warning of a government push for overly broad legisla... (more story)
Despite the US Federal Trade Commission’s recent guidance on deploying age-verification technology to identify users under 13 years old in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, companie... (more story)
Meta Platforms’ exposure to a potential settlement in a German consumer action over a Facebook data leak is emerging as a key test of how far collective redress under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulatio... (more story)
When privacy professionals descended on Washington, DC, this week, they knew they were walking into a conference focused equally on privacy and artificial intelligence. But they may not have anticipated a loom... (more story)