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India forces Big Tech to treat under-18s as minors in privacy rules
India has significantly changed data-protection rules, defining anyone under 18 as a child. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, which was put into effec... (more story)
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US FTC's Holyoak steps down as she begins US Attorney job in Utah
Melissa Holyoak stepped down Monday from her role as a Federal Trade Commissioner and has already begun her new job as interim US Attorney for the District of Utah.... (more story)
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Google, Meta, TikTok launch new challenge to Calif. social media law
Two months after the US Ninth Circuit largely affirmed the constitutionality of California’s "Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act,” Google, TikTok a... (more story)
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The EU’s plan for a single reporting point for cyber and data incidents won a cautious welcome from a Belgian cybersecurity authority representative on Wednesday during a panel talk in Brussels on Wednesday. W... (more story)
Industry associations representing major tech companies have welcomed the European Commission’s proposed changes to the EU’s digital rulebook, presented on Wednesday, in their initial reactions. The proposal i... (more story)
The UK data watchdog has its work cut out to be in a position to ensure the deployment of agentic AI is safe and compliant with data protection law, said one of its senior officials.
Google’s advertising data probe in Ireland should produce its preliminary conclusions in the first quarter of 2026, one of the three commissioners at the Irish Data Protection Commission has told MLex. Dale Su... (more story)
The definition of sensitive "special category" data under the EU's privacy regime is no longer in line to be changed, according to the final version of a European Commission digital package aimed at cutting th... (more story)
Germany’s plans to reform its devolved system for data protection oversight have drawn new skepticism from a state regulator, with the head of Bavaria's watchdog questioning whether greater centralization woul... (more story)
The European Commission will soon decide whether to strengthen anti-piracy measures for live-streamed events, following delayed assessment of its 2023 voluntary guidelines. Broadcasters are increasing pressure... (more story)
European Data Protection Board Chair Anu Talus warned that the European Commission’s forthcoming Digital Omnibus package risks overreaching on sensitive-data rules, saying simplification is acceptable only if ... (more story)
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EU regulators’ proposal to change the definition of personal data in the bloc’s landmark privacy law isn’t just raising hackles with privacy activists for undermining privacy protection; it’s also underscoring... (more story)
Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services faced the near-inevitable news today that the EU’s tough gatekeeper rulebook was coming for their cloud businesses, thus delivering on political calls that the crucial i... (more story)
The UK’s privacy regulator has been raising internal concerns about the legal resources needed to deliver broader cybersecurity enforcement, documents obtained by MLex show. The records, which cover 2021-2024,... (more story)
Privacy policies are back in the spotlight as researchers urge US lawmakers to strengthen transparency requirements for artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, especially to protect children. AI companies ar... (more story)
India has significantly changed data-protection rules, defining anyone under 18 as a child. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, which was put into effect by the subsequent rules released last Frida... (more story)
Google says it’s ready to roll out age-verification technology already adopted by its YouTube video-streaming service in global markets, amid media speculation the search giant is preparing to launch a legal c... (more story)
Meta Platforms’ bid to shield documents about its lawyers’ alleged efforts to cover up research into social media’s harm to young users may force the company to provide tens of thousands of more documents as U... (more story)
From Amazon’s $2.5 billion settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission to Google’s $3.5 billion European antitrust fine to Snap building an age verification system to comply with Australia’s forthcoming so... (more story)