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Vietnam tightens data localization rules in new draft cybersecurity law
A new draft of Vietnam’s revised cybersecurity law has increased data localization requirements for foreign service providers while retaining provisions that enable... (more story)
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Beijing signals more predictable data-transfer regime with new clarifications
Chinese authorities are signaling a more predictable data-transfer regime, with a recent policy symposium and new clarifications. Coinciding with these moves by aut... (more story)
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US Congress sharpens scrutiny of content moderation decisions
As US lawmakers put Biden-era decisions about content moderation under a microscope, there are two emerging paths to confronting the critics: turn to community note... (more story)
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Singapore's Parliament has passed new legislation creating a statutory framework to tackle online harms and improve victims’ access to redress. The Online Safety (Relief and Accountability) Bill establishes an... (more story)
Meta, ByteDance, Google and Snap will face a slate of bellwether trials in Los Angeles next year after a California state court judge ruled Thursday that teens presented enough evidence that design features su... (more story)
Education technology company Illuminate Education, Inc. must pay $5.1 million and strengthen its cybersecurity measures as part of a first-of-its-kind settlement under new student privacy laws in Connecticut a... (more story)
The UK regulator Ofcom said it is fast-tracking its investigation into an online suicide forum after a mental health charity provided evidence it remains accessible to UK users despite a voluntary geoblock. Th... (more story)
Telecom companies such as Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Vodafone should be regulated by national telecom rules rather than a harmonized, EU-wide regulation, according to a German government position paper seen ... (more story)
The European Commission plans to create a single-entry point for reporting cybersecurity incidents and data breaches under various EU laws, including NIS2, the GDPR and the Digital Operational Resilience Act. ... (more story)
E-commerce platform Shein should be investigated under the EU's content-moderation law, the Digital Services Act, French ministers told EU technology sovereignty chief Henna Virkkunen in a letter sent on Thurs... (more story)
The EU’s plans to simplify its digital legislation would make it easier for large companies to use public sector data and ease compliance for smaller cloud providers, MLex has learned. The plans are part of a ... (more story)
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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)
Connecticut’s attorney general is laying the groundwork to sue Meta Platforms over the Cambridge Analytica privacy leak seven years ago, with the state issuing a request for proposals for law firms to represen... (more story)
The EU’s Data Act, in force since September, remains difficult to interpret and costly to implement, though it promises to reshape how companies handle connected-device data, legal and industry experts told ML... (more story)
At an annual Tokyo cybersecurity conference this week, international and Japanese experts agreed the world’s fourth-largest economy’s recent legal reforms are a step towards a more robust cyberdefense posture.... (more story)
China’s newly unveiled outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan draws the line clearly: any quick US-China trade détente won’t alter Beijing’s long-term course. A shift in tone — from the cautiously optimistic frami... (more story)
Norway is moving ahead swiftly in the debate over children's use of social media as it develops a plan for a strict minimum age of 15, the country's digital minister has said. Australia is the poster child for... (more story)