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Some Big Tech companies faced big legal, regulatory bills this quarter
From Amazon’s $2.5 billion settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission to Google’s $3.5 billion European antitrust fine to Snap building an age verification sys... (more story)
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Six weeks in, US shutdown delays inject uncertainty into FTC probes
The record-breaking US government shutdown has entered its sixth week, creating uncertainty over how the Federal Trade Commission will handle stalled cases once fur... (more story)
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EU cyber resilience law advancing work on standards and oversight, documents show
The EU Cyber Resilience Act is entering a new stage of implementation, with the first set of cybersecurity standards under development and a new EU-wide "observator... (more story)
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The US Federal Trade Commission is beginning to receive responses to its probe on chatbots that will inform policy across the country, Chairman Andrew Ferguson said Monday.
Meta Platforms Ireland has been allowed to intervene in two joined appeals before the EU’s top court, supporting the European Commission in a dispute over alleged unlawful data transfers to the US via the Face... (more story)
Planned European Commission reforms to simplify technology rules would erode key privacy and data protection safeguards, according to a letter sent Monday and seen by MLex, in which leading digital rights NGOs... (more story)
Data retention and data access for law enforcement have become priorities in the EU’s internal security agenda, with Denmark, which is currently chairing the legislative agenda for member states, urging them t... (more story)
Tennessee's attorney general said Friday that a 90-year-old US Supreme Court ruling, which established that Congress can constitutionally limit the president's power to remove officials from independent regula... (more story)
California’s privacy agency voted Friday to pursue a trio of legislative proposals next year that would expand the state’s landmark privacy law, including new whistleblower protections modeled on federal progr... (more story)
Lawyers for former US Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Kelly Slaughter told the Supreme Court Friday that upholding her firing at the hands of President Donald Trump would “profoundly destabilize” key ... (more story)
Microsoft's LinkedIn has scaled back plans to use personal data from its European users to train generative AI models after the Irish privacy watchdog raised concerns. The move follows regulatory backlash over... (more story)
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From Amazon’s $2.5 billion settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission to Google’s $3.5 billion European antitrust fine to Snap building an age verification system to comply with Australia’s forthcoming so... (more story)
China's push to replace foreign semiconductors in data centers with domestic alternatives highlights the steep economic and efficiency trade-offs of technological self-reliance. In its pursuit of AI leadership... (more story)
Australia is just a month away from enforcing the world's first social media restrictions for children under 16. Despite the fast-approaching deadline, concerns persist about the reliability of age-assurance t... (more story)
The record-breaking US government shutdown has entered its sixth week, creating uncertainty over how the Federal Trade Commission will handle stalled cases once furloughed staff return and whether the prolonge... (more story)
The UK privacy regulator has moved to codify how it explains decisions to investigate and to enforce amid criticism over inaction on major data breaches. The draft guidance from the Information Commissioner’s ... (more story)
The EU’s landmark data-protection law is set to be amended with targeted updates as part of its digital simplification drive. In its proposals, seen by MLex and set to be published Nov. 19, the European Commis... (more story)
In a move to complement a speech by Japan’s new data protection chief on the purpose of the country’s personal-information protection law, the Personal Information Protection Commission plans to shift its emph... (more story)
Ryan Baasch, President Trump’s choice to be the next member of the US Federal Trade Commission, is a lawyer who knows the inside of a courtroom, even as he was the field general leading one of the most effecti... (more story)