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Meta, others argue US schools lack evidence for addiction allegations
Meta Platforms, ByteDance, Google and Snap are asking a US federal court to throw out claims by school districts over their social media apps’ allegedly negative im... (more story)
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Some Big Tech companies faced big legal, regulatory bills this quarter
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 sys... (more story)
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Six weeks in, US shutdown delays inject uncertainty into FTC probes
The record-breaking US government shutdown has entered its sixth week, creating uncertainty over how the Federal Trade Commission will handle stalled cases once fur... (more story)
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Online platforms will now have to wait until mid-2026 for clarity on whether they fall under the UK Online Safety Act’s toughest rules, after regulator Ofcom set out a revised timetable for publishing its regi... (more story)
Google has submitted a formal plan to bring its online advertising business inside the realm of EU antitrust law after a €2.95 billion fine in September for abusing its market power. The European Commission wi... (more story)
UK data centers will face direct cybersecurity regulation under the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, to be introduced in the UK parliament Wednesday. The move, left undecided in April’s policy paper, confir... (more story)
Google is taking on a Chinese operation that has turned phishing messages sent through SMS text messages into what it said has become an illegal software licensing business. In this case, the licensing of the ... (more story)
Companies with outbound data-flow demands in Beijing are expected to benefit from new measures that bolster data circulation and efficient utilization. At a recent press conference, Beijing authorities introdu... (more story)
Users of the social-media platform Discord in Hong Kong are among those affected by a data breach linked to one of its third-party customer service providers, with about 27,500 local accounts compromised, acco... (more story)
Meta Platforms, ByteDance, Google and Snap are asking a US federal court to throw out claims by school districts over their social media apps’ allegedly negative impact on children and teenagers, arguing evide... (more story)
Job applicants are going to need stronger privacy protections as the use of artificial intelligence becomes increasingly mainstream in recruitment, a senior official from the UK’s data protection watchdog said... (more story)
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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)
Australia is just a month away from enforcing the world's first social media restrictions for children under 16. Despite the fast-approaching deadline, concerns persist about the reliability of age-assurance t... (more story)
The record-breaking US government shutdown has entered its sixth week, creating uncertainty over how the Federal Trade Commission will handle stalled cases once furloughed staff return and whether the prolonge... (more story)
The UK privacy regulator has moved to codify how it explains decisions to investigate and to enforce amid criticism over inaction on major data breaches. The draft guidance from the Information Commissioner’s ... (more story)
The EU’s landmark data-protection law is set to be amended with targeted updates as part of its digital simplification drive. In its proposals, seen by MLex and set to be published Nov. 19, the European Commis... (more story)
In a move to complement a speech by Japan’s new data protection chief on the purpose of the country’s personal-information protection law, the Personal Information Protection Commission plans to shift its emph... (more story)
Ryan Baasch, President Trump’s choice to be the next member of the US Federal Trade Commission, is a lawyer who knows the inside of a courtroom, even as he was the field general leading one of the most effecti... (more story)