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Slaughter calls for ‘modified’ federal agency toolkit after US Supreme Court loss August 03, 2026 | Chris May

Former US Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter on Monday joined a group of bipartisan agency alumni in exploring the future of the FTC following a landmark decision from the US Supreme Court upho... (more story)

Airbnb loses French constitutional challenge over tourist tax fines August 03, 2026 | Matthew Newman

Airbnb has lost its challenge to France's minimum fine for accommodation platforms that fail to collect tourist tax, after the Constitutional Council ruled that the measure complies with the constitution. The ... (more story)

Data breach at UK govt's corporate finance arm under privacy watchdog scrutiny August 03, 2026 | Imogen Howse

The UK's privacy watchdog is examining a data breach at UK Government Investments after an internal file containing management information and details of 51 officials was left publicly accessible for around 40... (more story)

China launches matchmaking crackdown over personal data misuse August 03, 2026 | MLex Staff

China has launched a nationwide crackdown on the matchmaking industry, placing the misuse and leakage of personal information at the center of a broader campaign targeting a sector long plagued by consumer com... (more story)

Most Australian under-16s' social media accounts unaffected by ban, regulator says August 03, 2026 | Saloni Sinha

Most Australian children who had social media accounts before the country's ban on under-16s came into effect were able to retain them or create new ones within three months, a report by the online safety regu... (more story)

US judge allows Minnesota nude deepfake ban to take effect, delaying xAI challenge July 31, 2026 | Mike Swift

Minnesota’s ban on nonconsensual AI-generated nude deepfakes will take effect Saturday, after a federal judge rejected xAI’s last-minute request to block it, finding no immediate harm from the ban going into f... (more story)

Data brokers to pay first fines in Calif. over inaccurate registration information July 31, 2026 | Xu Yuan

Three data brokers have agreed to pay fines for providing inaccurate information regarding their businesses in registration with California’s privacy regulator in the first cases of such enforcement, according... (more story)

UK data-law exemptions for AI could bring significant benefits, regulator says July 31, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

A proposed UK regulatory sandbox allowing companies to test AI uses with time-limited exemptions from selected data protection rules could bring significant benefits despite limited demand, the Information Com... (more story)

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Reddit’s US claims against Perplexity AI, scraper survive under DMCA reading July 31, 2026 | Emma Whitford

Reddit can pursue US Digital Millennium Copyright Act claims against answer engine Perplexity AI and web scraper SerpApi, as it continues to fight a data scraping practice useful in artificial intelligence mod... (more story)

New Calif. data broker platform to begin work as states tighten regulations July 31, 2026 | Xu Yuan

Beginning in August, California’s new, powerful platform targeting data brokers will start processing consumers’ requests to delete all their personal data, as the state continuously seeks to step up the prote... (more story)

Deadlock over key appointments unlikely to constrain Brazil's privacy watchdog July 30, 2026 | Henrique Santiago

The National Data Protection Agency (ANPD) will face the departure of two of its longest-serving officials: Waldemar Gonçalves Ortunho Júnior, the watchdog's president, will officially leave office on Nov. 6, ... (more story)

US Senate, House take different paths for social media as clock runs down July 30, 2026 | Madeline Hughes

The possible inclusion of a duty-of-care for social media companies will likely prevent US congressional action to craft new regulations this year governing social media, as the Senate and House are working on... (more story)

xAI challenge to California AI training transparency law has national significance July 29, 2026 | Mike Swift

A federal appeals court is poised to consider xAI's novel challenge to California's Generative AI Training Data Transparency Act, which requires high-level disclosures about model-training datasets. xAI argues... (more story)

What will the UK tech ministry's abolition mean for policy and regulation? July 27, 2026 | Imogen Howse and Patricia Figueiredo

Shutting down the UK government's technology department is expected to slow policymaking and fragment coordination across AI, cybersecurity and online safety, even as AI policy moves closer to the center of go... (more story)

US legal fight over social media addiction faces long road ahead July 23, 2026 | Xu Yuan

In sprawling nationwide litigation over social media addiction, Meta Platforms, Snap, YouTube and TikTok are looking at years of fighting ahead as any resolution that may lead to palpable changes to the platfo... (more story)

Hurdles remain for Trump's prospective head of US DOJ's Antitrust Division July 22, 2026 | Chris May and Alex Wilts

Adam Candeub, President Donald Trump's nominee to oversee antitrust enforcement at the US Department of Justice, must clear procedural and institutional hurdles before he can implement any vision for the futur... (more story)