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Japan proposes looser data privacy law to support AI, puts class action on hold
Tokyo’s data privacy watchdog said Friday that it has finalized the triennial amendment to the Personal Information Protection Act, a landmark draft bill that will ... (more story)
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White House drops plan to nominate Baasch to US Federal Trade Commission
The White House no longer plans to nominate Ryan Baasch to be a member of the Federal Trade Commission, as he will be promoted to a role as deputy director of the N... (more story)
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US regulators to use same playbook for battling social-media harms for chatbots
From US courts to the halls of Congress, AI chatbots are seen as the next frontier in online harm to children, and regulators are using the same strategy to address it.
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Nicole Ozer, a legal expert on artificial intelligence and privacy in California, has been appointed to the five-member board of the state’s privacy regulator.
TikTok must face claims brought by Indiana that it failed to disclose truthfully harmful content, addictive features and connections to China, a state judge ruled.
Online advertising trade association IAB Europe has secured a legal victory against complying with a Belgian Data Protection Authority action plan after a Belgian appeal court found the place aspects of an ori... (more story)
Singapore’s healthcare providers will be required to contribute patient data to the nationwide electronic health record system under a new law aimed at reshaping care delivery while tightening controls over ac... (more story)
The data protection unit within the European Commission will get a new head, with Andréas Stein taking over the role, MLex has learned. He will succeed Olivier Micol, who is set to move in February to lead the... (more story)
Singapore public agencies and approved external partners will be able to share data more widely after Parliament passed legislation on Monday expanding public-sector data-sharing powers and introducing tougher... (more story)
China’s new draft rules on personal data collection and use by internet applications aims to tighten oversight of high-risk data activities while laying out a governance framework that extends beyond app opera... (more story)
A revised EU cybersecurity law is likely to be delayed until Jan. 20, as a proposed mandatory regime for phasing out Chinese and other vendors of technology equipment from critical infrastructure that are deem... (more story)
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The US Supreme Court is taking up a pair of cases brought by wireless carriers on the question of whether the Federal Communications Commission can fine companies for privacy violations through its administrat... (more story)
Elon Musk’s platform X has moved to restrict Grok's image generation and editing tools to paying users following weeks of regulatory and political backlash over the creation of intimate deepfakes. The change h... (more story)
The stability of a crucial trans-Atlantic data transfer agreement could be challenged if a forthcoming US Supreme Court decision erodes the independence of some US regulatory bodies in the view of the EU’s top... (more story)
The boom in AI and the platform economy is posing challenges to Europe’s legal order and will raise questions over the approach to copyright, contracts and transparency, according to Maciej Szpunar, one of the... (more story)
Europe’s big phone companies — such as Telefónica, Orange and Deutsche Telekom — are unlikely to see a major overhaul of the EU's telecom rules this year. But the European Commission's planned Digital Networks... (more story)
Companies operating in China face diverging pressures in 2026 as data privacy and cybersecurity policy pull in several directions at once. Public unease over data misuse, rising geopolitical friction with the ... (more story)
Negotiations on an EU law to tackle online child sexual abuse material are set to continue in the year ahead, with talks penciled in for February, May and June. But despite recent progress, the bloc's institut... (more story)
Meta Platform’s blockbuster acquisition of Manus appears straightforward: A US tech giant buys a promising artificial intelligence startup. But the deal exposes a troubling pattern for Beijing — Chinese-develo... (more story)