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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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A US federal judge questioned whether plaintiffs suing Meta Platforms over its access to geolocation data shared by third-party apps have to show the company knew that the data was collected without approval i... (more story)
The shield against antitrust liability that protects companies sharing cybersecurity threat intelligence, renewed with Congress’s continuing resolution last week, should be reauthorized for a decade, Senators ... (more story)
Google’s offer to change the functioning of its adtech tools in response to a 2.95 billion euro antitrust fine in September is a “more serious” and “more proactive” move than in the past, according to the EU’s... (more story)
Chinese social-media platform TikTok can continue to send data to China, after an Irish judge ruled on Monday to extend the suspension of an order by the country’s privacy watchdog to halt the transfers. The H... (more story)
The US needs to take a tougher stance on cybercriminals in order to deter bad actors before they start, said Sean Cairncross, national cyber director for the White House said Tuesday.
Shein is set to become the focus of renewed EU scrutiny after France called for a political debate on the online retail platform’s alleged failure to control illegal and dangerous content. France has called fo... (more story)
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)
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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)
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)