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Fired US FTC commissioners clash with DOJ attorney
Lawyers for former Democratic US Federal Trade Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter clashed in federal court today with a Department of Justice lawye... (more story)
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OpenAI’s 'hallucination' warnings helped sink radio host’s US defamation claims
False information about a conservative Georgia radio host "hallucinated" by ChatGPT could not be reasonably accepted as fact, a state judge ordered yesterday, savin... (more story)
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SK Telecom breach probe reveals long-hidden malware, possible personal data leaks
The recent hacking attack on SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, can be traced back to malware planted on the company’s servers as early as June 2022 ... (more story)
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Lawyers for former Democratic US Federal Trade Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter clashed in federal court today with a Department of Justice lawyer over the legality of their firing by Presid... (more story)
TikTok cited human rights law as it built its case in a UK court today that the country's privacy watchdog went beyond its powers in fining the platform, including for unlawful processing of children's data. T... (more story)
Headway, an online therapy startup that connects users with mental health providers, must face privacy claims alleging it shared sensitive medical data with Google, a US judge ruled today.
US artificial intelligence developer OpenAI’s ChatGPT will find out in the coming weeks whether Poland’s privacy watchdog has found that its AI model has violated the EU’s data protection rules, the authority’... (more story)
EU lawmakers urged the bloc's executive to propose new rules targeting online harm to minors. The report of a parliamentary committee, published today, said that despite existing provisions in the EU's Digital... (more story)
Amazon, Microsoft and Google will next month face more pressure from European lawmakers for the European Union to reduce its reliance on US cloud-service providers. Under a draft European Parliament report, fo... (more story)
TikTok sought to paint itself as a unique “free-expression service” with a high ratio of artistic content to argue on the opening day of an appeal trial in London that the UK data watchdog had gone beyond its ... (more story)
Hong Kong's privacy regulator sees no immediate need for new legislation specifically targeting artificial intelligence, despite growing concerns about the technology's impact on data protection. Privacy Commi... (more story)
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A bill quickly moving through the California Senate promises to protect small businesses from a wave of privacy lawsuits being brought under a decades-old anti-wiretapping law. But is it giving a free pass to Big Tech?
On the heels of a $168 million award by a US jury to Meta Platforms for its hacking into Meta’s instant-messaging app WhatsApp, the owner of spyware Pegasus faces a potentially even bigger battle that it argue... (more story)
Clearview AI told a California appeals court that its searchable facial-recognition database for law enforcement is protected free speech under the state's Anti-SLAPP law. The controversial facial recognition ... (more story)
US appeals court judges fired skeptical questions at the union lawyer challenging the Trump administration’s mass layoffs at the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – suggesting that the beleaguered agency... (more story)
AI is an unstoppable technology that is revealing whole new landscapes of concern for data protection, the UK's chief privacy regulator said in a wide-ranging speech in his native New Zealand. Live facial reco... (more story)
Wikimedia's legal challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act is poised to be a landmark test of how the law categorizes services, and thus imposes duties on them, and highlights growing concerns among platforms i... (more story)
Germany’s court-ordered blocks of Pornhub and YouPorn over missing age-verification measures highlight growing regulatory pressure on adult platforms — and test the limits of enforcement under the EU’s Digital... (more story)
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)