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How a 'one-off' case could upend the CFAA and a critical cyber defense tool
A prominent cybersecurity group is warning that a recent appellate court ruling upholding the conviction of former Uber security chief Joe Sullivan could undermine ... (more story)
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Amazon admonished for 'bad faith' privilege tactics in US FTC case
A US federal judge admonished Amazon for abusing attorney-client privilege to withhold nearly 70,000 documents from the Federal Trade Commission in a lawsuit over i... (more story)
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South Korean president ties AI ambitions to cybersecurity overhaul
South Korea’s drive to become a global power in artificial intelligence will hinge on whether it can build robust cybersecurity foundations, President Lee Jae Myung... (more story)
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Facebook executives and a group of shareholders reached a settlement today in litigation alleging Facebook prioritized Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and other senior leadership over the company’s fiduciary r... (more story)
Video-sharing platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo and Twitch will have to comply with the UK’s Online Safety Act in full from July 25, the same day the media regulator starts enforcing additional measures... (more story)
The EU’s flagship data protection law shouldn't be reopened, stakeholders told EU Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath in Brussels today. They called for more consistent enforcement and greater legal clarity, ... (more story)
A new data retention framework must provide EU-wide legal certainty while allowing national authorities discretion in how rules are applied, Belgium, Bulgaria, Spain and Latvia have told the European Commissio... (more story)
Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that hosts online encyclopedia Wikipedia, will be joined by an anonymous volunteer editor in its legal challenge to the UK Online Safety Act’s categorization rules, with ... (more story)
Privacy activist Lisa Ballmann won a legal battle at the EU’s lower-tier General Court after challenging a European data protection body’s refusal to give her access to a file related to her complaint against ... (more story)
Hong Kong's privacy regulator has opened a criminal investigation under anti-doxxing rules into a case where artificial intelligence was allegedly used to create fake explicit images of university students, hi... (more story)
Australian hardware giant Bunnings Group says the trial of facial recognition technology by New Zealand’s Foodstuffs North Island highlights that, with the right privacy safeguards, the tools can be deployed l... (more story)
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A recent US Supreme Court decision allowing states to implement laws requiring age verification to access online pornography is spilling into discussions about social media regulations.
The actions of Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and the company's board as the company made privacy moves during the past decade will face extreme scrutiny in an $8 billion US trial over claims by inve... (more story)
Online platforms have been told to expect more UK regulation to protect children online, with a focus on addictive design and healthier online habits. But it remains to be seen whether the British government i... (more story)
A prominent cybersecurity group is warning that a recent appellate court ruling upholding the conviction of former Uber security chief Joe Sullivan could undermine the use of bug bounty programs, a cornerstone... (more story)
The EU’s push for simplification of its laws has come up against a range of underlying tensions in the digital arena, including political ambition, bureaucratic inertia and industry pressure to roll back years... (more story)
Social media and search services could face new UK duties to share data with researchers, under proposals published by regulator Ofcom as part of its Online Safety Act implementation. But industry resistance, ... (more story)
A broad swath of businesses’ data-processing activities could be subject to scrutiny under US rules targeting access to American data by foreign countries considered as adversaries, as a grace period ends and ... (more story)
Timely responses and a demonstrated effort to comply with the Connecticut Data Privacy Act are crucial for avoiding severe fines, state Attorney General William Tong said as he announced the first monetary fine under the law.