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Philippine digital platform study urges privacy integration into competition law
A market study by the Philippine Competition Commission recommends integrating data privacy considerations into the Philippine Competition Act and strengthening coo... (more story)
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US DOJ's Assefi vows to reject 'half-measures,' wants more civil antitrust cases
Omeed Assefi, who took over as the acting chief at the Department of Justice Antitrust Division for a second time, and in an address to staff on Tuesday sought to d... (more story)
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Slater defends role in US DOJ review of HPE-Juniper merger
Gail Slater, former antitrust chief at the US Department of Justice, said Tuesday she is "deeply concerned" by allegations that she misrepresented the national secu... (more story)
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A child psychiatrist linked YouTube’s design features, including autoplay and infinite scroll, to Kayley’s compulsive use, telling California jurors Friday that the platform served as a “gateway” to broader so... (more story)
Meta Platforms must defend US investor claims that executives’ statements that failed to disclose flawed data privacy practices crashed the value of its stock in 2018, when the Cambridge Analytica privacy scan... (more story)
US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said the two-member agency carries ideological diversity despite the firing of its Democratic commissioners, and he isn't worried about the FTC's legitimacy... (more story)
A federal judge in Virginia has blocked enforcement of a new state law that imposes a one-hour time limit on the use of social media by teens under the age of 16. In granting an injunction sought by tech indus... (more story)
As a trial against Meta Platforms over harms to young users in Santa Fe, New Mexico, approaches its midpoint and the end of the state's case, John Chandler, an expert witness for the New Mexico attorney genera... (more story)
California’s first-of-its-kind platform that allows the state’s residents to require the deletion of their personal data by data brokers in a single request has seen almost a quarter of a million people sign u... (more story)
Consensus on a proposed EU law to combat online child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, drew closer on Thursday as legislative talks yielded progress in several key areas. Negotiations advanced on a future EU hu... (more story)
Google has secured conditional approval from South Korea to export the country’s 1:5,000 high-precision base map, clearing a major hurdle that could help the company to expand service offerings related to the ... (more story)
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Another porn-hosting platform received a fine from the UK online safety regulator this week for inadequate age assurance. But as the number of fines grows, there is scant information about whether they are pai... (more story)
Juries in Los Angeles and New Mexico will have to parse two very different views of Meta Platforms that they have heard during the first three weeks of parallel social media trials. Is the culture of “move fas... (more story)
Internal debate at Meta Platforms over whether to implement higher levels of privacy protections highlighted the long-existing tension between privacy and online safety, particularly over the protection of chi... (more story)
The US Federal Trade Commission made its latest move to prioritize implementation of age verification technology Wednesday when it released a policy statement saying it will not enforce child privacy laws agai... (more story)
Cosmetic filters that alter a person's appearance have been prominent in an addictive-design trial against Meta Platforms in Los Angeles, but a new decision by a federal judge in Illinois that the state's biom... (more story)
The UK's two key tech sector watchdogs, Ofcom and the Information Commissioner’s Office, have yet to show that the government's agenda to enlist their help in growing the economy can be a good fit. Even the co... (more story)
Internal Meta documents have offered a rare inside look at the company’s strategy around capturing the youth market.
As former Meta Platforms executives took the stand last week in a lawsuit against the company, they shared hope that social media could connect people and be a tool for good rather than harm. Former executives... (more story)