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South Korea's no-action letter offers assurance, but will it revive data use?
South Korea’s privacy regulator has introduced no-action letters to revive the use of pseudonymized data by offering advance assurance against enforcement, aiming t... (more story)
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US DOJ Antitrust Division’s top enforcers barred from public events
Political appointees at the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division are being barred from speaking at public events by the agency’s leadership, MLex has learn... (more story)
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Trump imposes tariffs on semiconductor chips, takes action on critical minerals
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed proclamations imposing tariffs on semiconductor chips and taking separate trade action on critical minerals — moves that ... (more story)
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The UK's data protection regulator plans to run a monitoring program this year to drive adoption of stronger age assurance measures, particularly targeting platforms that rely solely on self-declaration, a sen... (more story)
EU lawmakers are settling key roles regarding the European Parliament’s handling of packages of amendments to the AI Act and GDPR. The AI package is further advanced, with lawmakers Michael McNamara and Arba K... (more story)
Google's deeply integrated businesses in advertising technology present a special structural risk that online markets will continue to suffer, the European Commission said. In a decision published on Thursday,... (more story)
Major companies in telecommunications, retail, and other sectors that handle large volumes of personal data will face advance inspections by South Korea's privacy regulator as part of its shift from reactive p... (more story)
China has moved to tighten control over technology supply chains amid a push for self-sufficiency and rising geopolitical tensions, hitting potential buyers of Nvidia’s H200 chips with a customs notice banning... (more story)
Kakao, the operator of South Korea’s popular messaging app, has lost its court challenge to the country’s privacy watchdog, after a Seoul court dismissed the company’s appeal over the KakaoTalk open-chat data ... (more story)
A group of federal appellate judges zeroed in on whether California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code can be blocked in full based on the law’s threshold test for services “likely to be accessed by children.”
Political appointees at the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division are being barred from speaking at public events by the agency’s leadership, MLex has learned. Names of multiple antitrust enforcers who... (more story)
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South Korea’s privacy regulator has introduced no-action letters to revive the use of pseudonymized data by offering advance assurance against enforcement, aiming to reduce legal uncertainty for businesses and... (more story)
The US Federal Trade Commission has finalized a 20-year privacy order against General Motors and OnStar that will limit how the US carmaker with the largest market share can collect detailed location informati... (more story)
The US Supreme Court is taking up a pair of cases brought by wireless carriers on the question of whether the Federal Communications Commission can fine companies for privacy violations through its administrat... (more story)
Elon Musk’s platform X has moved to restrict Grok's image generation and editing tools to paying users following weeks of regulatory and political backlash over the creation of intimate deepfakes. The change h... (more story)
The stability of a crucial trans-Atlantic data transfer agreement could be challenged if a forthcoming US Supreme Court decision erodes the independence of some US regulatory bodies in the view of the EU’s top... (more story)
The boom in AI and the platform economy is posing challenges to Europe’s legal order and will raise questions over the approach to copyright, contracts and transparency, according to Maciej Szpunar, one of the... (more story)
Europe’s big phone companies — such as Telefónica, Orange and Deutsche Telekom — are unlikely to see a major overhaul of the EU's telecom rules this year. But the European Commission's planned Digital Networks... (more story)
Companies operating in China face diverging pressures in 2026 as data privacy and cybersecurity policy pull in several directions at once. Public unease over data misuse, rising geopolitical friction with the ... (more story)