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South Korea's no-action letter offers assurance, but will it revive data use?
South Korea’s privacy regulator has introduced no-action letters to revive the use of pseudonymized data by offering advance assurance against enforcement, aiming t... (more story)
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US DOJ Antitrust Division’s top enforcers barred from public events
Political appointees at the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division are being barred from speaking at public events by the agency’s leadership, MLex has learn... (more story)
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Trump imposes tariffs on semiconductor chips, takes action on critical minerals
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed proclamations imposing tariffs on semiconductor chips and taking separate trade action on critical minerals — moves that ... (more story)
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The Single Resolution Board — the EU's banking crisis-management authority — has dropped an appeal at an EU court against a decision by the bloc’s privacy watchdog that it must inform citizens about data proce... (more story)
The European Commission plans to expand EU cybersecurity certification schemes to cover companies’ overall risk-management posture, under a revised Cybersecurity Act due on Jan. 20. Draft rules would use certi... (more story)
Adding to the global fallout from provocative deepfakes created with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence service Grok, Japan issued its sternest warning yet, threatening “all possible measures” against his company X.
Online recruitment platforms in China have been ordered to tighten oversight of job postings and strengthen content controls, underscoring Beijing’s push to protect job seekers as fraud risks rise amid a slowi... (more story)
Lawyers for Meta Platforms told a federal judge in California that as a long-delayed shareholder suit over Facebook's Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal moves toward trial, shareholders shouldn't be allowed t... (more story)
The US Senate is focusing on banning the use of social media on school-provided devices as it contemplates other ways to regulate the use of social media by youth.
The UK's data protection regulator plans to run a monitoring program this year to drive adoption of stronger age assurance measures, particularly targeting platforms that rely solely on self-declaration, a sen... (more story)
EU lawmakers are settling key roles regarding the European Parliament’s handling of packages of amendments to the AI Act and GDPR. The AI package is further advanced, with lawmakers Michael McNamara and Arba K... (more story)
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The outcry over the use of X’s Grok chatbot to create sexualized deepfakes has provided a global stress-test of online safety laws and highlighted how national legal frameworks are shaping different approaches... (more story)
South Korea’s privacy regulator has introduced no-action letters to revive the use of pseudonymized data by offering advance assurance against enforcement, aiming to reduce legal uncertainty for businesses and... (more story)
The US Federal Trade Commission has finalized a 20-year privacy order against General Motors and OnStar that will limit how the US carmaker with the largest market share can collect detailed location informati... (more story)
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)