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With Musk's US trial against OpenAI near, new battle over remedies emerges
OpenAI and Microsoft are accusing Elon Musk of “injecting chaos” and “sandbagging the defendants” two weeks before their high-profile trial over the legality of Ope... (more story)
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Canadian privacy commissioner eyes fines, consent changes in Facebook case
Philippe Dufresne, who heads the Office of the Privacy Commission of Canada, sat down with MLex on the sidelines of an international privacy conference for an exclu... (more story)
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California’s data broker deletion tool gains users, interest from other states
More than 260,000 Californians have used the state’s new DROP platform to demand that data brokers delete their personal information, as officials say the platform ... (more story)
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New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez was in Washington, DC, on Tuesday speaking with members of Congress about the state’s $375 million jury-awarded penalty against Meta Platforms and asking lawmakers to re... (more story)
Major ad tech providers are continuing to track consumers who have opted out via Global Privacy Control, according to an audit that found widespread failures to block advertising cookies across thousands of popular websites.
China has published a new framework to counter what it describes as foreign “unlawful extraterritorial jurisdiction,” strengthening its tools to block such measures and impose trade and investment restrictions... (more story)
A Beijing court ruled that a ticketing vendor infringed a consumer’s rights by sharing personal information without separate consent, in a decision clarifying judicial standards for multi-party data processing... (more story)
European telecom ministers will discuss how EU mechanisms can be used to bolster the bloc’s resilience to cyber and hybrid attacks on critical infrastructure, including undersea cables and transport and energy... (more story)
Instagram’s plan to discontinue end-to-end encryption for messaging services faces the scrutiny of India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Board. In a significant ruling last week, a two-judge bench of the Ma... (more story)
China has released finalized interim measures governing anthropomorphic AI-interaction services, setting out a “prudent and inclusive” regulatory framework with tiered supervision, as authorities seek to balan... (more story)
Claims against Meta Platforms by Massachusetts over alleged harms from its social media platforms aren't barred by immunity provided by the US Communications Decency Act, the state’s top court ruled, dealing t... (more story)
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Meta Platforms faces growing pushback from civil rights groups, labor unions and other advocates to any plan to introduce facial recognition to its Meta AI smart glasses. Beyond a letter from the American Civi... (more story)
Roblox is rolling out a new set of content controls using age verification as tech companies are facing increasing pressure to make platforms safer for children.
Lawsuits over the alleged misuse of patient records are spotlighting privacy gaps in the trust-based systems underpinning US health data exchanges.
Enforcement of TikTok and X by a Singapore regulator over failures to curb terrorism and child sexual abuse content, respectively, adds to efforts by regulators around the world to confront similar risks. In t... (more story)
The effectiveness of the EU’s landmark data protection rules has evolved since the entry into force of the GDPR in 2018, shifting from a focus on enforcement to driving tangible changes in companies’ behavior,... (more story)
The government is putting more pressure on tech companies to make more detailed and accurate reports to the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s CyberTipline. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck... (more story)
UK regulators' handling of children’s data and enforcement of the Online Safety Act deserves criticism, prominent UK lawmaker Beeban Kidron has said, while warning of a government push for overly broad legisla... (more story)
Despite the US Federal Trade Commission’s recent guidance on deploying age-verification technology to identify users under 13 years old in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, companie... (more story)