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US SEC, CFTC adopt standards for data reported by firms June 08, 2026 | Neil Roland

The US Securities and Exchange Commission and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission established technical standards for data submitted to some financial regulators under a 2022 law. The two agencies were... (more story)

EU governments' talks on digital simplification rules fail to reach consensus June 08, 2026 | Júlia Tar and Matthew Newman

EU governments have failed to agree on proposed changes to cookie-consent rules and are seeking more time for negotiations after ambassadors fell short of a consensus on the Digital Omnibus package at a meetin... (more story)

EU lawmakers close in on digital euro deal ahead of key vote June 08, 2026 | Helena Freitas

The draft digital euro regulation has cleared a key hurdle in the European Parliament, after lawmakers reached agreement on core provisions. Technical work will continue this week before a committee vote on June 23.

Meta fined €100,000 in Germany for delay removing war criminal claims on Facebook June 08, 2026 | Anna Lauwereys

Meta Platforms has been fined €100,000 by a German court after it took more than two weeks to comply with an order to remove posts on Facebook which falsely accused a soldier of being a war criminal. Meta cite... (more story)

Massachusetts, Missouri seek outside legal help for TikTok, Roblox cases June 05, 2026 | Mike Swift

Massachusetts and Missouri are expanding scrutiny of TikTok and Roblox by seeking outside counsel on contingency-fee terms for investigations and potential litigation, according to requests for proposal publis... (more story)

Millions of Illinois Apple users can sue over facial recognition, US judge rules June 05, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo

Apple will have to face a sweeping class action alleging it collected the biometric identifiers of millions of Apple device and iCloud users in Illinois, a US federal judge has ruled.

US SEC should cancel 2023 cyber disclosure rules, banking group says June 05, 2026 | Neil Roland

A major banking group urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission to eliminate its 2023 cybersecurity disclosure rules in light of frontier artificial intelligence models that expose companies to unprecede... (more story)

Google targeted in new Dutch damage claim over adtech markets June 05, 2026 | Lewis Crofts

A group of more than 20 European news publishers, including Le Point SEBDO and FD Mediagroep, has filed a damages claim against Google in the Netherlands, seeking more than €640 million in compensation for all... (more story)

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Canada eases US trade tensions with streaming pullback, but questions remain June 08, 2026 | Bradley Dress

Canada pulled back on tougher streaming service regulations amid high tensions with the Trump administration over trade and the future of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a potential implication of O... (more story)

Meta questioned continuing research in light of leaks, US documents show June 05, 2026 | Madeline Hughes and Mike Swift

In September 2021, as a storm of controversy raged outside his company, Mark Zuckerberg sent his senior management team a momentous question, according to newly released US documents: should Meta Platforms sto... (more story)

Australian privacy watchdog sees growing workload, shrinking budget June 05, 2026 | Sean Maguire

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner faces rising workloads and major upcoming reforms, even as its budget is being cut by 8 percent. Privacy experts and advocates warn that longstanding under... (more story)

Netflix, Meta, Discord, other tech giants targeted by Texas AG in election run-up June 04, 2026 | Mike Swift

With newly filed litigation and investigations against Netflix, Meta Platforms, Snap, Discord, and Roblox, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has arguably been the most aggressive data protection enforcer in th... (more story)

EU digital law's national enforcers face test with policing of small porn sites June 03, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Smaller pornography platforms are an increasing focus of enforcement under the EU's Digital Services Act as national regulators prepare action against services not large enough for the European Commission’s di... (more story)

Brazil reshaping minors’ online safety with new age-rating framework June 02, 2026 | Henrique Santiago

The Brazilian government argues that its age-rating policy, which involves a series of recommendations that can be supported by parental supervision in digital environments, has been successful because familie... (more story)

Meta, others could face expensive resolution of US school suits after settlement June 02, 2026 | Xu Yuan, Mike Swift and Maria Dinzeo

The $27 million paid by Meta Platforms, Snap, TikTok and YouTube to resolve the first US school district lawsuit over alleged social media addiction may seem minimal, but the settlement could be just the begin... (more story)

AI chatbots: California Invasion of Privacy Act's next frontier May 29, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo

AI companies are finding themselves in the crosshairs of California's decades-old anti-wiretapping law, illustrated by two class actions against OpenAI for allegedly embedding tracking technology in the ChatGP... (more story)