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Microsoft, Meta seek South Korea's pre-launch privacy review for AI services
Microsoft and Meta Platforms are undergoing pre-launch reviews by South Korea’s privacy regulator ahead of the planned rollout of their artificial intelligence serv... (more story)
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TikTok owner ByteDance fined EUR530 million in Irish GDPR data-transfer case
TikTok owner ByteDance has been fined 530 million euros by Ireland’s privacy watchdog following an investigation into possible transfers of users’ data to China, th... (more story)
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Malaysia's cross-border data-transfer guidelines emphasize accountability
Malaysia has set out detailed guidelines for companies transferring personal data abroad, allowing such transfers under a framework that places full responsibility ... (more story)
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SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom operator, is facing a growing wave of class actions following a massive data breach affecting more than 24 million of its users — nearly half of South Korea’s populati... (more story)
Targeted advertising and location tracking by apps and businesses are among the issues about which Australia’s privacy regulator is seeking feedback from children, young people and parents as it develops the c... (more story)
Google asked a federal judge in San Francisco today to limit the testimony of the prominent tech writer Bruce Schneier during a forthcoming federal privacy trial over the company's allegedly illegal tracking o... (more story)
The US Federal Trade Commission is cutting its workforce by about 200 employees, or 15 percent, to rein in "bloated" overspending that pushed its workforce over 1,300 employees following a "two-year hiring spr... (more story)
Users of Flo Health, a period and pregnancy tracking app, have received the initial approval of a US federal judge for a proposed $3.5 million settlement with Flurry, one of the defendants the users sued over ... (more story)
The Federal Trade Commission will need new funding and technical infrastructure to enforce a pending federal ban on non-consensual AI-generated pornography, Chairman Andrew Ferguson told lawmakers today, warni... (more story)
All platforms under the EU’s Digital Services Act are expected to carry out a risk review on potential harms posed to minors using their sites. With this exercise, online platforms should understand how their ... (more story)
Conducting a data protection impact assessment for AI systems is a fundamental compliance requirement under the GDPR and should not be treated as a mere tick-the-box exercise, said Cian O’Brien, Ireland’s Depu... (more story)
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The $168 million verdict that a federal jury in California handed out last week to NSO Group Technologies underscores the challenge of putting a dollar value on privacy. WhatsApp’s lawyers in the case recommen... (more story)
Legislation that would require social media companies to display a warning about the potential mental health harms for social media use has been introduced in several US states, in the latest effort to battle ... (more story)
Last week marked 100 days since the start of Andrew Ferguson’s leadership of the US Federal Trade Commission, and while the new chairman has frequently talked the talk of a full-throated Trump populist, the wa... (more story)
Social media platforms’ age verification — intended to keep children out — needs to be regulated at the EU level, Denmark's digital minister told MLex in an interview. Caroline Stage Olsen said that platforms ... (more story)
The center-left government of Australia has been returned to office with an enhanced electoral majority, handing it a mandate to push ahead with key policies outlined over the past three years. Prominent candi... (more story)
With the US Federal Trade Commission and lawmakers in California and elsewhere scrutinizing “surveillance pricing” practices, private litigation is also starting to target that nascent practice, where retailer... (more story)
Unconvinced by NSO Group Technologies’ argument that it couldn’t – and shouldn’t – pay punitive damages for using WhatsApp to plant its Pegasus software on unsuspecting surveillance targets around the world, a... (more story)
Meta Platforms is hoping to get the UK data privacy regulator on board with its plans for an ad-free subscription version of its social media products for the British market in coming months. The US tech giant... (more story)