Data Privacy and Security

Meta Platforms asked a US federal court to turn down a request by plaintiffs in the Flo Health privacy lawsuit for an award of $1.1 billion in damages, without more to be sought later, after the company was fo... (more story)

Gail Slater, former assistant attorney general at the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, is heading to the law firm White & Case as a partner in the Washington, DC, office, MLex has learned.  Slate... (more story)

New UK rules around the use of AI chatbots for under-18s are expected to be finalized "by this time next year," a government minister said at an event on Tuesday. Speaking at the Labour Party conference, media... (more story)

The child safety measures agreed by social media companies TikTok and Meta Platforms in recent US court settlements will be assessed by UK lawmakers, Barbara Keeley, the chair of a parliamentary inquiry into U... (more story)

Spain wants EU governments to clarify when tax authorities can repeatedly send personal data to countries outside the bloc under the General Data Protection Regulation, in a proposal that cites exchanges linke... (more story)

Germany is weighing options from closer cooperation among state privacy regulators to centralized federal oversight of businesses, Interior Ministry State Secretary Bernd Krösser said. The government has yet t... (more story)

Confidence in the UK’s online safety regulator Ofcom is "not particularly high," online safety minister Ian Murray said at a Labour Party conference event. He acknowledged the complexity of Ofcom’s duties but ... (more story)

Designation of non-EU countries as posing cybersecurity concerns to critical EU technology supply chains would be decided by member-state governments, rather than the European Commission, under a draft text fo... (more story)