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Amazon credit-law settlement a first under Mufarrige leadership at US FTC bureau June 30, 2026 | Madeline Hughes

The US Federal Trade Commission sealed a $2.25 million settlement Tuesday with Amazon over the company’s alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act in not properly disclosing business records to ident... (more story)

EU judges examine whether GDPR gives right to get baptismal records erased June 30, 2026 | Matthew Newman and Anna Lauwereys

Judges at the EU's highest court on Tuesday examined whether the bloc's data protection rules give people who were baptized as minors the right to require the Catholic Church to erase their personal data from ... (more story)

EU to analyze impact of US Supreme Court ruling on data transfer deal (update*) June 30, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

A US Supreme Court ruling allowing the US president to remove Federal Trade Commission commissioners will be analyzed for any impact it might have on a key EU-US data transfer mechanism, the European Commissio... (more story)

China turns AI scrutiny to gateways connecting users to models June 30, 2026 | MLex Staff

China's top intelligence and counter-espionage authority has warned about the growing risks posed by a fast-expanding class of artificial intelligence intermediaries that aggregate access to multiple large lan... (more story)

KakaoPay takes Alipay data-transfer case to appellate court in South Korea June 30, 2026 | Jenny Lee

KakaoPay has taken its fight with South Korea’s privacy regulator to the appellate court, challenging a ruling that upheld a 6 billion won ($3.9 million) sanction over its transfer of roughly 40 million users’... (more story)

US House passes KIDS Act, teeing up Senate vote June 29, 2026 | Madeline Hughes, Emma Whitford, Maria Dinzeo

The US House passed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act by a 267-117 vote Monday.

US Supreme Court allows president to remove FTC commissioners June 29, 2026 | Claude Marx and Dwight A. Weingarten

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act stating that members of the FTC can only be removed for cause are "incompatible with the separation of powers enshrined in ... (more story)

No final deal on EU child abuse draft law as detection remains unresolved June 29, 2026 | Júlia Tar

EU negotiators reached compromises on almost the entire proposed regulation to combat online child sexual abuse material but failed to strike a final deal as talks over the sensitive issue of detection will co... (more story)

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US regulator of foreign investment eyes agentic AI, data centers June 30, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger

Agentic AI programs that can plan, reason, and act out a series of tasks to achieve more complex goals, and the data centers that provide the massive computing power required to train and run the complex model... (more story)

Litigation funding faces first review at EU’s top court June 30, 2026 | Jean Comte

Litigation funders will see judges at the EU's highest court get their first taste of the burgeoning industry in a case over whether antitrust class actions backed by investment funds infringe the bloc's rules... (more story)

Impasse in EU digital-rules-reforms talks sparks fresh calls for changes June 29, 2026 | Júlia Tar and Matthew Newman

Technology companies, publishers, advertisers and consumer groups are preparing to press EU governments as negotiations continue over plans to simplify the bloc's digital rules after member states failed to ag... (more story)

USMCA negotiation proposal could undermine US auto reshoring June 26, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker

Negotiations over the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement's auto rules of origin are at a critical juncture as the agreement enters a 10-year sunset period with annual joint reviews if no deal is reached by the July 1 ... (more story)

Major class members face greater disclosure demands after UK’s Google adtech ruling June 26, 2026 | Lewis Crofts

The UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal has opened the door to broader disclosure demands on large beneficiaries of opt-out collective proceedings, ruling that major corporate class members in a £13.6 billion cla... (more story)

Japan AI data debate puts privacy in political spotlight June 26, 2026 | Sachiko Sakamaki

An unusually heated parliamentary debate is under way over Japan's data protection law, highlighting growing political divisions over balancing privacy protections with the use of personal data to support arti... (more story)

Platforms see renewed debate about EU rules for detecting child abuse content June 25, 2026 | Júlia Tar

Online platforms could once again have a legal basis in the EU to voluntarily detect child sexual abuse material if lawmakers revive an interim regulation that expired in April. EU ambassadors are due to discu... (more story)

Bipartisanship on kids' online safety reignites as US Congress pursues reform June 24, 2026 | Madeline Hughes

Both chambers of US Congress are looking to act on children's online safety with fresh bipartisan approaches announced this week.