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CCIA sues to halt Texas App Store Accountability Act from going into effect
The Computer & Communications Industry Association sued Texas on Thursday for allegedly violating the First Amendment with its App Store Accountability Act, which i... (more story)
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Child safety online, tech sovereignty at center of EU ministers’ talks
Stronger EU measures to protect children online, as well as ways to boost the EU's technological independence, will be topics in focus for national digital minister... (more story)
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ACL's A$5.8m penalty stems from 'serious' privacy-law breaches, judgment reveals
Australian Clinical Labs' failure to take reasonable steps to protect sensitive patient information — which led to the 2022 data breach that exposed the personal de... (more story)
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NSO Group Technologies is permanently prohibited by a US federal court to install its spyware Pegasus on Meta Platforms’ WhatsApp, but the court significantly dialed back the $168 million in punitive damages a... (more story)
Google and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have finalized the terms of a $1.38 billion privacy settlement, the attorney general told the Texas Supreme Court this week. Terms of the settlement proposal haven’... (more story)
The tech trade associations that successfully halted state social media content-moderation and age-verification laws are using the same playbook to stop app store regulations and social media warning labels.
Bolt’s CEO Markus Villig warns that Europe’s fragmented regulations and transport market risk handing the future of autonomous vehicles to the US and China. He calls for a unified EU framework, clearer data an... (more story)
China is set to draft an industrial blueprint for the smart connected and new-energy vehicle sector for the next five years and push the broader adoption of artificial intelligence throughout the value chain, ... (more story)
A new data clause in China’s revised Anti-Unfair Competition Law, which took effect on Wednesday, marks a “key breakthrough” in regulating digital competition, cabinet competition advisor and law professor Men... (more story)
Social-media company X Corp. will have to return to the drawing board and re-present its defense in one of its legal clashes with Australia’s online-safety watchdog, after a judge said the platform’s original ... (more story)
The Computer & Communications Industry Association sued Texas on Thursday for allegedly violating the First Amendment with its App Store Accountability Act, which is set to take effect in January.
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Roku, the top US video streaming platform, is under increasing scrutiny from state regulators over its collection and use of children’s personal information, with Florida this week joining Michigan in filing s... (more story)
Social-media platforms must be made to impose minimum age limits in the EU, lawmaker Christel Schaldemose told MLex in an interview ahead of a vote on a pivotal report on a child-protection initiative on Thurs... (more story)
Brazil’s competition authority should take a measured approach to establishing a new digital markets superintendence, CADE President Gustavo Augusto Freitas de Lima told MLex, warning against moving too quickl... (more story)
A series of trials involving allegations against the world’s biggest social media companies — Meta Platforms, ByteDance, Google, and Snap — will take place in California beginning 2026 in federal and state cou... (more story)
The Brazilian administration aimed to submit two regulatory bills, one focused on user safety in digital services and the other on promoting fair competition among tech players, but government officials chose ... (more story)
Adtech companies, publishers, and large US tech platforms are eagerly awaiting how the EU’s executive will amend the bloc's rules governing how websites obtain consent from users for the placement of cookies, ... (more story)
Stronger EU measures to protect children online, as well as ways to boost the EU's technological independence, will be topics in focus for national digital ministers meeting in Denmark on Friday against a back... (more story)
Demands that Meta Platforms and X Corp. remove from their social-media feeds certain violent content, including footage of the assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk, has placed Australia’s online-sa... (more story)