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Instagram, Facebook founders’ rivalry spills into US FTC monopolization trial April 22, 2025 | Chris May

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom delivered trial testimony today accusing Meta Platforms’ Chief Executive and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of “starving” Instagram of vital resources and decision-making b... (more story)

UK digital ID companies warn government wallet risks potential 'monopoly' April 22, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

UK companies providing digital identity services have voiced concern over rivalry from a government digital wallet program that could “stifle innovation” and “limit consumer choice.” A coalition of association... (more story)

OpenAI's Ghibli-style image generation draws attention of South Korean privacy watchdog April 22, 2025 | Jenny Lee

OpenAI is currently under the watchful eye of South Korea's privacy regulator amid concerns over how the company's generative AI tools process personal data when users create Studio Ghibli-style images. Speaki... (more story)

Meta, TikTok slam YouTube's 'sweetheart' exemption from Australia's under-16 ban April 22, 2025 | James Panichi

Meta and TikTok have hit back at an Australian minister, following media revelations suggesting she decided to exempt YouTube from a social-media ban for under-16s while still formally consulting on the issue ... (more story)

South Korea's SK Telecom faces scrutiny following suspected SIM card data breach April 22, 2025 | Jenny Lee

SK Telecom is facing a fact-finding inquiry by South Korea’s privacy watchdog after detecting signs that hackers may have compromised customer information through malicious code.

WhatsApp’s founders must 'face reality,' US FTC expert says in Meta trial April 22, 2025 | Chris May

WhatsApp founder Brian Acton’s sworn testimony that he wouldn't abide a pivot toward revenue-generating ads, games and “gimmicks” on the world-beating messaging app he created didn’t hold much weight compared ... (more story)

California court has jurisdiction in Shopify privacy lawsuit, appeals court rules April 21, 2025 | Xu Yuan

Canadian e-commerce service provider Shopify is subject to the jurisdiction of a federal court in California, a US appeals court ruled, reviving allegations that Shopify illegally tracked online shoppers in the state.

US FTC’s new COPPA rule to come into effect this summer April 21, 2025 | Madeline Hughes

Children’s online data will be harder to sell to third parties beginning this summer under the US Federal Trade Commission’s new Children's Online Privacy Protection Act rule that is set to go into effect in s... (more story)

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US FTC privacy regime to focus on tech competition, protecting children, Holyoak says April 23, 2025 | Mike Swift and Madeline Hughes

In a policy speech that signaled the US Federal Trade Commission’s return to “not stretching our legal authorities,” Commissioner Melissa Holyoak unveiled the Republican majority’s data privacy vision to bolst... (more story)

Are platforms heeding warnings from UK regulators about under-13s’ data access? April 22, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter and Patricia Figueiredo

Social media apps such as Meta Platforms’ Instagram or ByteDance’s TikTok have a duty not to process the data of children under 13, a senior official at the UK’s privacy watchdog told MLex in an exclusive inte... (more story)

US judge’s CIPA ruling raises bar for privacy plaintiffs targeting session replay April 21, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

A federal judge has tightened the standards for privacy claims under California’s wiretap law, ruling that session replay tools don’t violate the statute unless they interpret communications while in transit. ... (more story)

US DOJ continues to treat cyber negligence as contract fraud, data breach or not April 18, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

Federal prosecutors are increasingly using the False Claims Act (FCA) to scrutinize government contractors over cybersecurity compliance, even in the absence of actual data breaches or security incidents.

States may argue for issue preclusion in US adtech case against Google in Texas April 18, 2025 | Alex Wilts and Mike Swift

The US Department of Justice’s triumph against Google in a case challenging the tech giant’s practices in digital advertising markets opens up a question over whether states suing the company in Texas will nee... (more story)

FTC’s Meta monopolization suit aims to succeed where DOJ failed: privacy harms April 18, 2025 | Chris May and Mike Swift

Mark Zuckerberg, the highest-profile witness in a US Federal Trade Commission lawsuit seeking to break up Meta Platforms, offered testimony this week that will help the agency’s attempt to push forward a priva... (more story)

States with common privacy laws team up on US enforcement to tame legal patchwork April 18, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

In the absence of a federal privacy law, a group of state regulators — including California, Connecticut and others — has launched the Consortium of Privacy Regulators to coordinate enforcement and consistent ... (more story)

Missouri's rulemaking to age-gate internet access has First Amendment implications April 15, 2025 | Madeline Hughes

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is likening his use of rulemaking power to limit children’s access to online adult content to barring the purchase of age-restricted materials like tobacco. But laws att... (more story)