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Get cybersecurity rules aligned, EU Commission urged in policy dialogue session
European technology companies pressed for streamlined cybersecurity compliance obligations during a stakeholder meeting with the European Commission, including tech... (more story)
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Chinese government unveils sweeping measures to tighten app oversight
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will adopt a series of measures to tighten app governance amid a broader push to protect personal data, a se... (more story)
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Meta questions Indian watchdog's jurisdiction in data-privacy showdown
Meta Platforms has challenged the jurisdiction of the Indian antitrust watchdog as it confronts the penalty imposed over WhatsApp's privacy policy. The social-media... (more story)
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After hearing heartbreaking stories from parents about their children engaging with AI chatbots and harming themselves, US senators told Big Tech companies they need to reform or be subject to subpoenas and regulations.
European technology companies pressed for streamlined cybersecurity compliance obligations during a stakeholder meeting with the European Commission, including tech policy chief Henna Virkkunen, on Monday. Par... (more story)
US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson complained Tuesday about antitrust remedy proposals that dealmakers bring forward “on the eve of trial.”
The Open Data Directive and Chapter II of the Data Governance Act were the focus of the European Commission’s second “reality check” meeting on Tuesday. The EU executive is considering merging the two into a s... (more story)
Italy’s former prime minister Mario Draghi has urged a pause of the EU AI Act’s high-risk rules and pressed for a radical simplification of the GDPR, warning that legal uncertainty is slowing AI deployment and... (more story)
The UK privacy chief said his office will continue to focus resources on cases with the “greatest impact,” despite criticism over its decision not to investigate the Ministry of Defence’s Afghan data breach. S... (more story)
The EU's pioneering gatekeeper law will be back under study by judges again next month, when lawyers for Apple seek to overturn the company’s designation under the Digital Markets Act as a crucial platform for... (more story)
At the Global Privacy Assembly in Seoul, privacy regulators and experts called for a shift from broad principles to concrete enforcement in governing artificial intelligence, warning that fragmented national a... (more story)
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Last week’s bombshell US whistleblower disclosures made it clear that Meta went to great lengths to shield itself from liability over any potential harm to kids and teens from its products. But its in-house la... (more story)
Class-action privacy settlements often put a monetary check before business changes, but a group of plaintiffs who alleged Google’s “Real-Time Bidding” ad auction violates their privacy say they've achieved a ... (more story)
China’s cyber police penalized French luxury house Dior for failing to meet personal-data protection obligations, in a case that sends a stark warning to companies transferring information across borders: comp... (more story)
Google was recently ordered by a US federal jury to pay $425 million in damages for violating users’ privacy by continuing to collect their data when the users thought they’d asked Google not to do so. In find... (more story)
Meta Platforms and TikTok scored procedural wins at the EU’s General Court in their appeals against a supervisory fee that was imposed in the EU's Digital Services Act, the bloc's content-moderation rules. Whi... (more story)
Two adtech companies are among the first to face privacy lawsuits alleging violations of new US national security rules that restrict the transfer of Americans’ personal data to adversary nations such as China... (more story)
Bluesky and Dreamwidth have blocked users in Mississippi following the US Supreme Court’s decision last month to allow the state's age-verification law to go into effect. While preventing kids from seeing stuf... (more story)
The outlook for UK tech businesses and those considering investment has added uncertainty after a major government reshuffle late last week. Tech minister Peter Kyle is now business and trade minister and alre... (more story)