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Fired US FTC commissioners clash with DOJ attorney
Lawyers for former Democratic US Federal Trade Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter clashed in federal court today with a Department of Justice lawye... (more story)
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OpenAI’s 'hallucination' warnings helped sink radio host’s US defamation claims
False information about a conservative Georgia radio host "hallucinated" by ChatGPT could not be reasonably accepted as fact, a state judge ordered yesterday, savin... (more story)
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SK Telecom breach probe reveals long-hidden malware, possible personal data leaks
The recent hacking attack on SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, can be traced back to malware planted on the company’s servers as early as June 2022 ... (more story)
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Tech companies — ranging from US giants such as Meta, Google and Microsoft to European startups — could see an agreement on the EU’s GDPR procedural regulation in June at the earliest. The new law was due to b... (more story)
The European Commission and the EU data protection authorities have decided to “closely cooperate” on upcoming guidelines concerning the interplay between the GDPR and the AI Act. Following tensions unfolding ... (more story)
The Hamburg Data Protection Authority sent a "hearing letter" to Meta Platforms Ireland, which could start an urgent procedure that ultimately could force Meta to suspend AI training in Germany, the authority ... (more story)
Oversight of information recommendation algorithms in China will strengthen, following last year’s campaign led by the country's Internet regulator, underscoring that algorithm governance is a long-term, syste... (more story)
Keio University Professor Satoru Tezuka received parliamentary approval today to become Japan’s new data protection chief. After securing support from the Upper House yesterday, lawmakers in the Lower House ap... (more story)
Personal data leaked in the recent hacking attack on SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, has been traced to Singapore, raising the need for international cooperation with foreign privacy authorit... (more story)
As the US Department of Justice scrutinizes digital markets for antitrust problems, the agency is considering the quality of consumers’ privacy protections as one element of competition, a senior DOJ official ... (more story)
The EU's GDPR procedural regulation hasn't been finalized at tonight's negotiations between the European Parliament and the EU governments, an EU source told MLex. The meeting was supposed to wrap up the new l... (more story)
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Adtech association IAB Europe saw a Belgian court uphold a fine of 250,000 euros against it last week for breaching EU data protection rules, confirming its role as a joint controller of consent data collected... (more story)
A bill quickly moving through the California Senate promises to protect small businesses from a wave of privacy lawsuits being brought under a decades-old anti-wiretapping law. But is it giving a free pass to Big Tech?
On the heels of a $168 million award by a US jury to Meta Platforms for its hacking into Meta’s instant-messaging app WhatsApp, the owner of spyware Pegasus faces a potentially even bigger battle that it argue... (more story)
Clearview AI told a California appeals court that its searchable facial-recognition database for law enforcement is protected free speech under the state's Anti-SLAPP law. The controversial facial recognition ... (more story)
US appeals court judges fired skeptical questions at the union lawyer challenging the Trump administration’s mass layoffs at the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – suggesting that the beleaguered agency... (more story)
AI is an unstoppable technology that is revealing whole new landscapes of concern for data protection, the UK's chief privacy regulator said in a wide-ranging speech in his native New Zealand. Live facial reco... (more story)
Wikimedia's legal challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act is poised to be a landmark test of how the law categorizes services, and thus imposes duties on them, and highlights growing concerns among platforms i... (more story)
Germany’s court-ordered blocks of Pornhub and YouPorn over missing age-verification measures highlight growing regulatory pressure on adult platforms — and test the limits of enforcement under the EU’s Digital... (more story)