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In Meta case over mental health issues, US judge asks states for more trial information
A US federal judge asked states to provide more information on how they plan to structure a trial in their lawsuit against Meta Platforms over the social media comp... (more story)
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Michigan's standing for Roku privacy suit questioned by US judge
A US judge Wednesday asked Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel how the state has standing — and is the proper entity — to bring a lawsuit against Roku for alleged... (more story)
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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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Australian health insurer Medibank Private’s consumer class action and the privacy regulator’s case over the 2022 data breach that exposed the personal information of 9.7 million people are expected to be hear... (more story)
KakaoPay argued that its transfer of South Korean users’ data to China’s Alipay was a lawful fraud-prevention outsourcing arrangement, not an illicit handover abroad of personal information to Apple, in its cl... (more story)
Livestreaming platform Twitch will join Reddit, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat on the growing list of digital platforms covered by Australia’s under-16 social-media ban, with the online-safety regulator also... (more story)
The Beijing Internet Court has ruled that a listed company violated an employee’s privacy by disclosing salary details in public filings, marking a landmark decision that sets new limits on how far companies c... (more story)
The US Securities and Exchange Commission said it was dropping a lawsuit accusing SolarWinds Corp. and its chief information security officer of failing to warn investors about lax cybersecurity standards befo... (more story)
A federal judge in San Francisco who dismissed litigation against NSO Group Technologies last year, only to have that decision reversed by a federal appeals court, said at a hearing Thursday that he continues ... (more story)
A US appeals court panel examined whether the definition of social media in a suspended Utah law is content-neutral as the state seeks to reverse a preliminary injunction that stops it from enforcing the law, ... (more story)
The US Federal Communications Commission withdrew cybersecurity regulations for telecom companies that were intended to prohibit unauthorized access to companies’ networks on Thursday.
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India’s data-protection law and its rules have sparked regulatory uncertainty for multinationals. Despite the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 appearing liberal initially, the DPDP Rules reintroduce c... (more story)
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)