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Meta whistleblower stresses long-term UK online safety risks from US trade talks
Speculation is rife that the UK’s online safety law is a pawn in ongoing trade negotiations with the Trump administration in the US, which sees it as as a censorshi... (more story)
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KakaoPay challenges South Korean privacy watchdog after massive data transfer fine
KakaoPay has taken its fight with South Korea's privacy watchdog to court, after being hit with a fine of 6 billion won (about $4.1 million) for transferring person... (more story)
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Restructuring at Australian privacy agency leads to departure of nine executives
The ongoing restructuring of Australia’s privacy agency has already led to the departure of at least nine officials, according to a document released this week unde... (more story)
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X Corp. lost its bid to dismiss Bright Data’s US monopolization counterclaims today, with a California federal judge accepting arguments that the social media platform unlawfully changed its own rules to force... (more story)
A federal judge in Californa said she would allow Meta Platforms to seek a quick summary judgment ruling that it did not violate Illinois' biometric privacy law by allegedly collecting the voiceprints of Faceb... (more story)
An update to Oregon’s data privacy law is headed to the state Senate after sailing out of the House by a vote of 51-0.
Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition startup, will have to wait for final judicial approval of its plan to sell off a portion of itself to settle biometric privacy claims. Two objectors to the se... (more story)
Amid a streak of wins in its challenges of state social media laws, Big Tech industry group NetChoice suffered a setback as an appeals court sent remanded its lawsuit against a Mississippi age-verification law... (more story)
A privacy complaint from South Korean civil society groups over Meta Platform and X’s alleged unlawful collection of personal data for artificial intelligence training is the focus of a preliminary fact-findin... (more story)
Sheryl Sandberg, a former executive at Meta Platforms, today recounted in US court how the company's leadership fretted over upsetting shareholders as it stared at a potential revenue shortfall of $6 billion i... (more story)
Discord has been hit with a lawsuit from a state enforcer alleging that its deceptive business practices harmed children on its platform, becoming the latest company to face such an action. New Jersey Attorney... (more story)
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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.
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)
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)
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 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)
Despite ongoing legal scrutiny of digital taxes targeting social media companies, some US states continue to push the idea for purposes including boosting state revenue and remediation for harm caused by exces... (more story)
Snap, ByteDance and Meta Platforms face an extended legal battle with Canadian school systems over claims their social media platforms were negligently designed to be addictive, something the schools say harme... (more story)
A Facebook whistleblower got a warm reception in the US Congress and a senator separately alleged that Meta Platforms' virtual reality headsets violate child privacy law. But those incidents were only two of a... (more story)