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South Korea's no-action letter offers assurance, but will it revive data use?
South Korea’s privacy regulator has introduced no-action letters to revive the use of pseudonymized data by offering advance assurance against enforcement, aiming t... (more story)
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US DOJ Antitrust Division’s top enforcers barred from public events
Political appointees at the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division are being barred from speaking at public events by the agency’s leadership, MLex has learn... (more story)
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Trump imposes tariffs on semiconductor chips, takes action on critical minerals
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed proclamations imposing tariffs on semiconductor chips and taking separate trade action on critical minerals — moves that ... (more story)
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UK lawmakers in the House of Lords approved an amendment late Wednesday that would require social media platforms to block users under 16, adding the proposal to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. The ... (more story)
The Chinese government and industry players have pushed back against the EU's plan to mandate a phaseout of “high-risk” information and communications technology suppliers under a revised Cybersecurity Act. Sp... (more story)
South Korean tech giant Kakao has moved to keep its privacy fight alive, filing an appeal this week against a lower court ruling that dismissed the company’s challenge to the privacy watchdog’s sanctions over ... (more story)
A federal judge dismissed a privacy lawsuit accusing Shopify of secretly intercepting consumers’ online shopping data, ruling that plaintiffs failed to plausibly show the e-commerce company intentionally acces... (more story)
A US federal judge expressed skepticism toward multiple motions from both Google and the plaintiffs in a privacy class action concerning issues including injunctive relief and disgorgement after the plaintiffs... (more story)
Children’s online privacy is going to remain a top priority for the US Federal Trade Commission as it prepares to enforce new Children's Online Privacy Protection Act rules and the Take It Down Act in the comi... (more story)
Whether EU privacy law obliges regulators to give access to data when handling complaints will come under consideration by the EU’s highest court on Thursday, in a case that could have implications for transpa... (more story)
The EU’s revamped telecom rules didn’t include a binding arbitration mechanism to resolve disputes between telecom operators and tech companies over network fees because a negotiating system was working well, ... (more story)
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A social-media bellwether trial slated to begin next month in Los Angeles will proceed in a narrower form after Snap Inc. struck a last-minute settlement with one of the plaintiffs. The deal removes a defendan... (more story)
Brazil's new ECA Digital law establishes two types of fines, enabling the Brazilian privacy watchdog to impose stricter financial penalties on companies and to move beyond an educational approach to regulation.
In rejecting a standalone AI Act in favor of a light-touch, piecemeal approach, India is gambling on existing laws and compulsory licensing to foster growth while balancing emerging risks and citizen safety as... (more story)
California is turning to a device-level “age signal” law as it prepares to implement age verification, with supporters arguing that AB 1043 avoids the pitfalls that have drawn legal and privacy fire in other s... (more story)
US state antitrust enforcers are in the early stages of examining the privacy implications of mergers and market competition.
The outcry over the use of X’s Grok chatbot to create sexualized deepfakes has provided a global stress-test of online safety laws and highlighted how national legal frameworks are shaping different approaches... (more story)
South Korea’s privacy regulator has introduced no-action letters to revive the use of pseudonymized data by offering advance assurance against enforcement, aiming to reduce legal uncertainty for businesses and... (more story)
The US Federal Trade Commission has finalized a 20-year privacy order against General Motors and OnStar that will limit how the US carmaker with the largest market share can collect detailed location informati... (more story)