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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 German and French governments are supporting a one-year delay of the EU AI Act’s regime for high-risk AI systems, France's digital minister told a conference in Berlin on Tuesday. The statement comes a day... (more story)
European telecom and satellite companies may take advantage of a “simplified” regime for authorizing spectrum for satellite services as part of the EU’s overhaul of its telecom rules, European digital chief He... (more story)
Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services will be subject to an investigation under the EU's digital gatekeeper rules to see if the powerful cloud platforms should be more tightly regulated. Henna Virkkunen, EU ... (more story)
Mercedes-Benz and Tesla have become the first foreign carmakers cleared to offer generative artificial-intelligence services in China, after aligning their AI assistants with the country’s strict oversight rul... (more story)
NetChoice, a tech industry group representing the likes of Meta Platforms and Google, filed a lawsuit alleging a Virginia law that imposes restrictions on the use of social media by users under the age of 16 v... (more story)
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. In a farewell note, she told FTC staff that ... (more story)
Despite high-profile ransomware attacks in Japan that paralyzed supply chains of a top brewery and a major office-goods supplier in recent weeks, cyber defenses at the country's businesses remain dangerously p... (more story)
The new Digital Personal Data Protection Rules 2025, released last Friday, operationalize India's privacy law — setting strict mandates for businesses and establishing citizen rights. However, they face critic... (more story)
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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)
China's push to replace foreign semiconductors in data centers with domestic alternatives highlights the steep economic and efficiency trade-offs of technological self-reliance. In its pursuit of AI leadership... (more story)
Australia is just a month away from enforcing the world's first social media restrictions for children under 16. Despite the fast-approaching deadline, concerns persist about the reliability of age-assurance t... (more story)