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Online platforms can expect focus on algorithms under UK child safety codes
Online platforms can expect increased scrutiny over how their algorithms serve up content to children under final UK codes of practice released yesterday. While the... (more story)
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OpenAI's Altman pitches own product as privacy solution for new AI tools
The world needs a new approach to privacy and safety for the latest wave of artificial intelligence technology, AI agents, OpenAI’s Sam Altman told the world’s larg... (more story)
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Trump, Ferguson say Humphrey’s Executor inapplicable to fired US FTC members
President Trump and US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson told a federal judge that governing precedent under the landmark Humphrey’s Executor case i... (more story)
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The UK government’s draft Data Bill that may give platforms an exception to use third-party cookies for analytics and other website monitoring purposes without seeking users’ explicit consent could be an “insp... (more story)
Andrew Ferguson, chair of the US Federal Trade Commission, told a global gathering of data protection watchdogs this week that the FTC is concerned about censorship by social media companies, MLex understands.... (more story)
US Federal Trade Commission employees have been offered three potential ways to cut short their employment at the nation’s competition and consumer protection watchdog, according to agency memoranda seen by MLex.
Scrutiny is growing over how companies use artificial intelligence tools in the workplace as bots are inundating companies with resumes, and workers are increasingly concerned about their privacy and surveilla... (more story)
Clearview AI, a US company that provides facial recognition software to law enforcement in the US, may be forced to comply with a data-deletion order by Italy's data protection authority, a senior official at ... (more story)
Data brokers are likely to continue facing scrutiny from US regulators during the Trump administration. But given the huge uncertainty about the future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and to some ... (more story)
Clearer roles and greater national involvement in the EU’s cybersecurity crisis response are the focus of EU member states' suggestions as they review the European Commission’s proposed "Blueprint on Cybersecu... (more story)
State lawmakers from California to Maryland are passing laws that address privacy and safety issues around a new kind of entertainment “stage” — parents who turn their kids into social media influencers such a... (more story)
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NSO Group Technologies will face a federal jury in California next week that will decide the damages NSO owes Meta Platforms to fix a security breach caused by its Pegasus spyware used to spy on some 1,400 Wha... (more story)
Online platforms can expect increased scrutiny over how their algorithms serve up content to children under final UK codes of practice released yesterday. While they will take time to digest the 1,700 pages of... (more story)
South Korea’s privacy commissioner, Ko Hak-soo, sat down with MLex on the sidelines of the IAPPs Global Privacy Summit to discuss next steps in the country’s trailblazing “MyData” initiative, a sweeping effort... (more story)
UK companies this week finally received an outline of proposed cybersecurity reforms expected later this year. The UK aims to align its cybersecurity framework with the EU's NIS2 directive through the forthcom... (more story)
Philippe Dufresne, the privacy commissioner of Canada, sat down with MLex to discuss the progress of the investigations of OpenAI and TikTok, his plans for hosting the G7 meeting of privacy regulators in Ottaw... (more story)
The new Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act could emerge as a new area for data protection enforcement by the US Federal Trade Commission, with the regulator now investigating multiple data... (more story)
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)
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)