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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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Google agrees to settle US Android cellular data suit for $135 million
Google has agreed to pay $135 million to settle long-running litigation over its appropriation of cellular data transmitted to the company from Android smartphones,... (more story)
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Philippines flags potential record privacy fine in first access-request case
The Philippine National Privacy Commission has ordered Metro Retail Stores Group Inc. to release complete CCTV footage and imposed a fine equal to 0.75 percent of i... (more story)
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Tech trade association NetChoice was vigorously questioned Tuesday by judges from the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals about how Mississippi’s age-verification law harms its members’ platforms.
X and X.AI are facing parallel UK regulatory investigations over the use of Grok chatbot to create sexualized deepfakes images. Ofcom on Tuesday set out limits on its ability to regulate standalone AI chatbots... (more story)
Social media platforms in Spain will face criminal liability for executives, restrictions on minors’ access and new rules targeting the algorithmic amplification of illegal content under five measures announce... (more story)
The unexpected illness of a lead lawyer has delayed the start of the first bellwether trial against Meta Platforms and YouTube over the alleged addictive design of social media platforms. Opening statements ar... (more story)
US state attorneys general and Meta Platforms filed dueling motions asking a federal judge to decide key issues in their sprawling youth-safety lawsuit, with the states pressing for an early ruling that Meta i... (more story)
Law enforcement access to data will be a focus for Cyprus in its role chairing EU member states' work on legislative files in the first half of this year, with work planned on data retention, lawful intercepti... (more story)
UK online safety regulator Ofcom will face a legal challenge on Feb. 26 over its refusal to disclose information about meetings and engagement with major tech companies. The case, brought by nonprofit group Cl... (more story)
China’s public security regulator has released a draft law on cybercrime prevention and control, seeking to establish a dedicated legal framework to curb what it describes as an increasingly severe and complex... (more story)
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A dispute over scraped performance data from pachinko machines, a popular arcade-style gambling game in Japan, has produced an early test of how far Japan’s unfair competition “data IP” concept can be used to ... (more story)
As the US Federal Trade Commission looks to implement potential policies to bolster the use of age verification technology, experts urge data minimization practices.
Roblox, Discord, Snap and Meta Platforms are facing new multidistrict litigation alleging they facilitated sexual predators' assaults against children on their platforms. That litigation, the In Re: Roblox Cor... (more story)
Airbnb’s potential liability for illegal subletting has become the subject of disagreement after France’s top court sent two cases back on appeal, with critics warning the approach risks departing from EU case... (more story)
The theory that tech giants intentionally targeted and manipulated young minds for profit will soon be put to the test, with the first in a series of trials set to begin next week in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom.
One year into US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson’s leadership of the “Trump-Vance FTC," the Bureau of Consumer Protection’s regulatory philosophy on data privacy and artificial intelligence i... (more story)
Social media age bans are rapidly moving up the political agenda in Europe, with France and several other member states pressing ahead with national measures as the EU weighs whether to act at bloc level. With... (more story)
Work is set to begin in the coming weeks on negotiations for agreeing an extension of EU privacy rules that would allow platforms to continue to take a voluntary approach to detecting online child sexual abuse... (more story)