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Meta, others argue US schools lack evidence for addiction allegations
Meta Platforms, ByteDance, Google and Snap are asking a US federal court to throw out claims by school districts over their social media apps’ allegedly negative im... (more story)
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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 government 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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Pornhub’s operator, Aylo Freesites, told EU judges on Friday that the porn site shouldn't be classified as a very large online platform under the Digital Services Act, arguing that the European Commission reli... (more story)
China rolled out a plan to open and link logistics data nationwide, aiming to cut shipping costs and boost efficiency to better support the economy. The plan was jointly released by 10 government agencies, inc... (more story)
Google will keep hold of its adtech businesses despite pressure from the European Commission to sell off assets and cure a conflict of interest that in September led to a 2.95 billion euro fine. This week, the... (more story)
Singtel Optus is set to receive A$4.3 million ($2.8 million) in security payments for costs from Australian class-action plaintiffs, after a judge ordered the payments be made in four stages through an insurer... (more story)
India's "light touch" AI governance faces calls for clearer, enforceable rules on deepfakes, copyright and labor displacement, according to experts discussing the new India AI Guidelines and the Competition Co... (more story)
Meta Platforms is potentially facing multiple consumer protection claims in a single trial brought by a coalition of US states that allege the company adopts addictive social media app features that have led t... (more story)
District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb told a DC Superior Court judge that she correctly ruled that Meta Platforms must turn over documents because it may have violated the crime-fraud exemption, ... (more story)
Meta Platforms said on Thursday it has sued Italy’s communications regulator, after it decided to classify Content Delivery Networks — a system of distributed servers designed to deliver content faster to user... (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)