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Coupang breach tied to stolen key, forged 'electronic pass,' South Korea finds
Coupang’s user-account system was exploited for months after a former employee allegedly stole a signing key and used it to forge an “electronic pass” that could cl... (more story)
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DOJ’s Hamer leaving Antitrust Division less than a year into job
Mark Hamer, a top enforcer in the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, is departing the agency less than a year after he was appointed deputy assistant at... (more story)
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Roblox, Discord, Snap, Meta face sprawling US litigation claiming child sexual assault
Roblox, Discord, Snap and Meta Platforms are facing new multidistrict litigation alleging they facilitated sexual predators' assaults against children on their plat... (more story)
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When Arturo Bejar, the former director of engineering for Meta Platforms, returned to the company in 2019, there was a “fundamentally different” culture about helping children than during the company’s earlier... (more story)
Meta Platforms sought to use community violation reports to impeach testimony from an assistant principal at an Albuquerque, New Mexico, school on Monday during the state’s trial against the company.
Tech giants face new legal liabilities in India where the government is tightening its regulatory grip on artificial intelligence. Revised rules released on Tuesday will force platforms to track and label AI-g... (more story)
YouTube on Tuesday opened its defense in a trial in Los Angeles, where the Google subsidiary is accused alongside Meta Platforms of purposefully designing its social media platforms to be addictive to young us... (more story)
Technological solutions to protect children and adolescents in digital environments in Brazil must come from the government initially, according to Renata Mielli, special advisor at the Ministry of Science, In... (more story)
A US federal judge cleared a Kentucky school district to take social media companies to trial on claims they negligently designed their platforms to foster compulsive use among children.
EU member states have been asked to give their views on procedures for reporting cyber incidents and changes to EU data rules to inform the European Commission's broader plans for simplifying the bloc's digita... (more story)
The Italian Data Privacy Authority and labor regulator have opened a joint investigation into Amazon’s warehouse employee monitoring practices. The investigation follows a probe by the French data protection a... (more story)
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Meta Platforms’ appeal against a record €1.2 billion — the highest in the history of the EU’s data protection rules — has been unlocked after the EU’s highest court ruled that the social-media company can dire... (more story)
Amazon, Google and Microsoft could receive a tax holiday until 2047 on global cloud revenues if they route foreign workloads through Indian data centers, under India’s Budget 2026-27 push to attract AI investm... (more story)
State attorneys general have taken on Big Tobacco and opioids, garnering industry-changing settlements. They're now using the same playbook on a novel subject — social media — with the first of many expected t... (more story)
WhatsApp Ireland is set to learn next week whether it can challenge a decision by a group of EU data protection authorities before the EU courts — a precedent-setting ruling that could unblock related appeals ... (more story)
Data protection authorities across Europe and EU bodies flagged a considerable increase in data protection complaints in 2025, marking a record year for many. Authorities believe this may be driven by the wide... (more story)
The European Commission’s proposed changes to the definition of personal data in the digital simplification package — dubbed the Digital Omnibus — should be addressed in a broader debate along with an impact a... (more story)
The unrest in Minnesota is becoming a part of the national conversation about data, privacy and free speech online. A recent hearing on free speech, new legislation and letters to companies asking about their ... (more story)
Addictive-design claims are spreading beyond social media, with plaintiffs now pressing the theory against video game makers in federal court.