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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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Job applicants are going to need stronger privacy protections as the use of artificial intelligence becomes increasingly mainstream in recruitment, a senior official from the UK’s data protection watchdog said... (more story)
AI chatbots such as ChatGPT occupy a gray area under the UK’s Online Safety Act, regulator Ofcom has admitted, as a senior official sought to clarify how generative AI tools fit within the law. Ofcom's approac... (more story)
Online platforms will see an update in relation to the UK Online Safety Act's register of categorized services published on Wednesday, watchdog Ofcom has said, adding that a judicial review initiated by Wikipe... (more story)
Age assurance technologies to protect children online should be used more widely, a senior official for the UK's communications regulator has told a US audience, arguing that the era of “age-blind” internet is ending.
The UK’s data protection regulator has finalized guidance on its enforcement approach for public-sector bodies. Information Commissioner John Edwards said the approach aims to raise standards through engagemen... (more story)
A bitter legal struggle involving telecommunications giant Telstra over an order to release a customer’s metadata cost the stretched enforcement budget of Australia’s privacy watchdog a total of $99,000, with ... (more story)
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called for swift legislative action to curb hate speech and misinformation online, condemning discriminatory remarks based on race and nationality that have spread across s... (more story)
A lobbying push by Australian banks against plans to overhaul the country’s ailing data-portability regime appears to be facing headwinds, with the minister responsible for the revamp rejecting a request to me... (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)