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Amazon admonished for 'bad faith' privilege tactics in US FTC case
A US federal judge admonished Amazon for abusing attorney-client privilege to withhold nearly 70,000 documents from the Federal Trade Commission in a lawsuit over i... (more story)
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South Korean president ties AI ambitions to cybersecurity overhaul
South Korea’s drive to become a global power in artificial intelligence will hinge on whether it can build robust cybersecurity foundations, President Lee Jae Myung... (more story)
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Beijing enforces new facial-data filing mandate amid privacy push
More than 60 entities in Beijing have filed with the local Internet regulator after storing facial-recognition data on at least 100,000 individuals, as authorities ... (more story)
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The US Federal Trade Commission won't overreach as it polices unfair and deceptive data privacy practices, Chris Mufarrige, director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, said today.
UK online platforms should face stronger duties to tackle misinformation and deepfakes, a parliamentary committee said today, calling out gaps in the Online Safety Act. In a new report, lawmakers are urging th... (more story)
Meta Platforms Ireland has filed an appeal at the EU's highest court against a lower EU court decision that rejected the company's challenge of an opinion by an umbrella group of EU data protection authorities... (more story)
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Manus AI has relocated its global headquarters from China to Singapore while also slashing its domestic operations. The move comes as the company maneuvers through esca... (more story)
South Korea’s competition regulator is planning to propose revisions to the e-commerce law to introduce a more limited and controlled mechanism for disclosing seller information when consumer harm occurs. Inst... (more story)
Google and Meta urged a US federal court to throw out privacy allegations against them over the use of their website tracking technologies by a telehealth company focusing on erectile dysfunction medication be... (more story)
Chinese social-media platform TikTok is facing a new probe by the Irish privacy watchdog into its storage of EU users’ personal data on China-based servers after an initial inquiry into data transfers from the... (more story)
Data storage costs for cloud-service providers could be part of EU guidelines for calculating “reasonable compensation” for making data available in business-to-business contexts, MLex has learned. The commiss... (more story)
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The EU’s push for simplification of its laws has come up against a range of underlying tensions in the digital arena, including political ambition, bureaucratic inertia and industry pressure to roll back years... (more story)
Social media and search services could face new UK duties to share data with researchers, under proposals published by regulator Ofcom as part of its Online Safety Act implementation. But industry resistance, ... (more story)
A broad swath of businesses’ data-processing activities could be subject to scrutiny under US rules targeting access to American data by foreign countries considered as adversaries, as a grace period ends and ... (more story)
Timely responses and a demonstrated effort to comply with the Connecticut Data Privacy Act are crucial for avoiding severe fines, state Attorney General William Tong said as he announced the first monetary fine under the law.
The Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) ruled that content involving serious crimes posted by users, such as antidemocratic acts and violence against minors, must be removed immediately by social media platforms or ... (more story)
Cybersecurity experts are concerned that legal ambiguities will undermine companies' efforts to ensure data security if a 2015 law is permitted to expire.
A deal to spin off TikTok’s US social media platform to American investors could come soon after a trade deal with China is finalized. The company and the Trump administration have had a deal in place with pri... (more story)
Denmark has begun its six-month term as chair of EU policy discussions with a renewed push to force online messaging platforms to scan for child sexual abuse material on their platforms. But unless there's a b... (more story)