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Indonesia clarifies US 'adequacy' agreement, but key details still missing
Indonesia’s communications ministry sought to reassure the public today that the government did not sacrifice protections on their personal data in exchange for low... (more story)
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Meta renews fight against digital-ad sanction in South Korean appeals court
Meta Platforms told a South Korean appellate court today that a lower court fundamentally misunderstood how targeted advertising works, leading to a legally flawed ... (more story)
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Slaughter 'can't show entitlement' to FTC reinstatement, Trump tells US court
President Donald Trump and co-defendants at the US Federal Trade Commission filed an emergency motion to stay the reinstatement of Rebecca Kelly Slaughter to the ag... (more story)
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Roger Alford and Bill Rinner, two of the top enforcers in the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, have been placed on administrative leave following tensions with leadership at the agency, MLex has learned.
Meta Platforms will stop allowing political, electoral and social issue advertising in the European Union starting in October. The company said this was due to legal uncertainty and operational burdens linked ... (more story)
Online platforms must enforce age checks from today to comply with the UK’s Online Safety Act, regulator Ofcom said as it gains powers to enforce its children's protection codes. More than 1,000 services have ... (more story)
Authorities in Beijing, China’s capital city, are set to intensify efforts to curb the unauthorized collection and use of personal data through a new series of initiatives. Meanwhile, officials in Shanghai are... (more story)
Meta Platforms executive Steve Satterfield faced a series of tough questions from a plaintiiff lawyer today, as an unprecedented US privacy trial in which Meta and Flo Health are accused of illegally sharing m... (more story)
California’s privacy regulator today adopted regulations on automated decision-making, risk assessment and cybersecurity audits, following a rulemaking process that started in 2021.
Chinese regulators are moving to tighten controls on connected and intelligent vehicles. The public security ministry has outlined a plan to strengthen legal frameworks, while the science and technology minist... (more story)
KakaoTalk, Naver, Coupang, Baedal Minjok and Danggeun Market have been asked to strengthen internal oversight of how personal data flows across their interconnected services, following a preemptive inspection ... (more story)
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With Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton proclaiming his state “the watchdog for the nation’s privacy rights” this week, Google acknowledged that the $1.4 billion privacy settlement it reached with Texas this sp... (more story)
Wikipedia is confident a solution will be found to prevent UK online safety rules from disrupting its services in Britain, founder Jimmy Wales told MLex. As the Wikimedia Foundation’s legal challenge to the UK... (more story)
Even as Meta Platforms defends itself in the first-ever Big Tech privacy trial on claims over health data, Meta and Google face more trouble over health information, as a US judge in San Francisco denied their... (more story)
Meta Platforms and Flo Health are scheduled to face a federal jury in San Francisco Monday in what would be an unprecedented jury trial over privacy claims against the social media giant and the app that calls... (more story)
Despite intense efforts, South Korea is falling behind in the global race to commercialize autonomous driving technology, with the US and China having already deployed Level 4 autonomous vehicles in major citi... (more story)
A recent US Supreme Court decision allowing states to implement laws requiring age verification to access online pornography is spilling into discussions about social media regulations.
The actions of Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and the company's board as the company made privacy moves during the past decade will face extreme scrutiny in an $8 billion US trial over claims by inve... (more story)
Online platforms have been told to expect more UK regulation to protect children online, with a focus on addictive design and healthier online habits. But it remains to be seen whether the British government i... (more story)