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US federal judge will likely require OPM to audit DOGE access to data June 13, 2025 | Madeline Hughes

The US Office of Personnel Management will likely have to provide audits detailing records access by Department of Government Efficiency personnel, a federal judge in New York said today.

Bellwether trial cases selected in US social media addiction litigation June 13, 2025 | Xu Yuan

A pool of eleven school district and personal injury lawsuits filed against the biggest social media companies including Meta Platforms, Google and ByteDance have been selected for trial in a large-scale US li... (more story)

Google backs EU age-verification plans, countering Meta’s app-store lobbying June 13, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter and Patricia Figueiredo

Google today publicly backed the EU’s “risk-based” approach to online age verification, including development of an EU-wide system and child-protection guidelines for online platforms covered by the Digital Se... (more story)

Shanghai, Beijing crack down on AI misuse as part of nationwide campaign June 13, 2025 | MLex Staff

To curb the misuse of artificial intelligence, local Internet regulators in Beijing and Shanghai have begun conducting supervisory inspections, with the latter announcing administrative penalties against nonco... (more story)

Tech companies ready to consult on Australia's under-16 social-media ban June 13, 2025 | James Panichi

Fifty tech-industry representatives have put their names forward to be part of a panel tasked with advising Australia’s online-safety regulator on defining the “reasonable steps” social-media companies must ta... (more story)

Telegram risks penalty proceedings if Australian regulator wins lawsuit June 13, 2025 | Saloni Sinha

Telegram may have to slug it out in court with Australia’s online-safety regulator if it wants to avoid civil-penalty proceedings, after the messaging-service provider was told today to expect legal action if ... (more story)

US judge scraps GoodRx privacy settlement, orders lawyers 'back to the drawing board' June 13, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

A US federal judge threw out a proposed $25 million settlement over claims GoodRx illegally shared sensitive health data with Google, Meta and Criteo, blasting both sides for failing to justify the deal as the... (more story)

Change Healthcare urges US judge to trim 'behemoth' data breach case June 12, 2025 | Mike Swift

Lawyers for Change Healthcare urged a federal judge in Minnesota to trim back litigation claims stemming from the largest healthcare data breach in US history in February 2024, saying consumer plaintiffs in th... (more story)

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Google, Meta face threat of billions in damages in Flo Health US trial June 13, 2025 | Mike Swift

With a jury trial in San Francisco just over a month away over women's fertility app Flo Health's alleged illegal sharing of millions of US women's menstrual and pregnancy data with Google and Meta Platforms, ... (more story)

Brazil mandates facial recognition at stadiums amid security investigation June 13, 2025 | Henrique Santiago

The installation of facial recognition security cameras at soccer stadiums in Brazil will be mandatory starting this Saturday, with the expiration of a two-year period that soccer clubs were given to implement... (more story)

US state legislation on pricing algorithms has far-reaching implications for businesses June 13, 2025 | Amy Miller and Alex Wilts

US state lawmakers are taking aim at the use of pricing algorithms, whether they’re used for “surveillance pricing” to charge people different prices for goods like groceries or airline tickets, or to orchestr... (more story)

Businesses push for unified 'New England' privacy model; lawmakers aren’t convinced June 12, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

Business groups are urging northeastern states to rally around a single framework for data privacy, calling it the “New England model.” But lawmakers in Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont aren’t buying it, inste... (more story)

Global privacy regulators handed out over $18 billion in fines over last decade June 11, 2025 | Mike Swift, Matthew Newman and James Panichi

The cost of data privacy violations for the largest companies that trade in personal data continues to escalate, with the world's privacy regulators handing out more than $18 billion in monetary privacy sancti... (more story)

New ruling deepens divergence among US judges on intent in website tracking cases June 11, 2025 | Xu Yuan

A new ruling addressing whether Google, via its website trackers, intended to receive sensitive personal data from health providers shows a divide continues to exist among federal judges in California over int... (more story)

Justice's contrary vote unlikely to derail social media restrictions in Brazil June 10, 2025 | Henrique Santiago

After recommencing a Brazilian trial on the constitutionality of Article 19 of the nation's Internet Civil Rights Framework, Justice André Mendonça supplied the first pro-Big Tech vote so far. But other Suprem... (more story)

US FTC 'Attention Economy' conference carries kids' privacy warnings for tech industry June 10, 2025 | Mike Swift

An ambitious, young, conservative leadership at the US Federal Trade Commission — many of them now parents who grew up as digital natives in the 2000s — appear to have the means and the determination to police... (more story)