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WhatsApp ordered in India to rewrite data-sharing rules with mandatory opt-in
WhatsApp must overhaul its privacy interface within three months, following a court ruling that all Indian user data shared with Meta Platforms — including for adve... (more story)
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Regulatory glare turns on video-games sector in global push to protect children
The video-games industry has moved into the global regulatory spotlight. Policymakers, particularly in the EU, are advancing new rules and stricter enforcement, whi... (more story)
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As Tong takes leadership of attorneys general, states confront tech on AI, platform addiction
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, who this week began his one-year term as president of the National Association of Attorneys General, sees approaching tri... (more story)
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TikTok allegedly harvested data about a user’s activity in other apps, including sessions on Grindr, and processed it without a legal basis, according to complaints filed by noyb. A second complaint says TikTo... (more story)
Coupang founder Bom Kim is facing criminal complaints from South Korea's parliament after repeatedly failing to appear to testify about a massive data breach that exposed 33.7 million user records, with lawmak... (more story)
South Korea will launch a formal discussion with the US early next year to explore a new mechanism for cross-border data transfers, placing the US on the country’s list of jurisdictions being assessed for comp... (more story)
Legislation that would empower South Korea's privacy regulator to impose fines of up to 10 percent of total revenue for serious personal-data breaches cleared a key parliamentary hurdle on Wednesday amid mount... (more story)
A lawsuit brought by parents and advocates against TikTok and Google over allegedly faulty video reporting tools was dismissed Tuesday by a federal judge because those tools are protected by Section 230 of the... (more story)
Tech companies are set to feature prominently in UK plans to tackle violence against women and girls, which the government has confirmed will be published on Thursday after a number of delays. Reports of a pus... (more story)
Online platforms regulated under the UK’s Online Safety Act will be subject to a parliamentary inquiry into addictive use of technology and how that impacts children’s development. It will likely begin early n... (more story)
Chinese regulators have granted the country’s first approvals for Level 3 conditional autonomous-driving vehicles, marking progress beyond test trials toward the threshold of commercial deployment. The Ministr... (more story)
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With Meta Platforms, TikTok, YouTube and Snap just over a month from a landmark, multi-billion dollar trial over whether allegedly addictive designs harmed US teens, the companies at a pre-trial hearing in Los... (more story)
Regulators worldwide have woken up to a need to police online safety for minors. Australia has arguably gone the furthest, banning social media for under-16s from this week. In Europe, America, Asia and beyond... (more story)
The video-games industry has moved into the global regulatory spotlight. Policymakers, particularly in the EU, are advancing new rules and stricter enforcement, while court cases are multiplying in the US, all... (more story)
Age verification is increasingly seen as a way to keep children away from harm online, as seen with versions in place in the EU, UK and the US. But there are widespread fears that proving your age necessarily ... (more story)
Government social media age restrictions, such as the one coming into force this week in Australia, or broad content-moderation laws such as those in the EU and the UK, are impossible in the US because they ar... (more story)
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, who this week began his one-year term as president of the National Association of Attorneys General, sees approaching trials in lawsuits by state attorneys general ag... (more story)
As Washington moves to ease restrictions on Nvidia’s H200 AI chips to China, Beijing is likely to respond with a calibrated two-track approach that might allow Chinese companies to buy the powerful chips under... (more story)
Reddit has a complicated relationship with AI. While the 20-year-old social platform recently sued Anthropic and Perplexity alleging the AI companies illegally scraped its content to train their large language... (more story)