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Chinese regulator to escalate oversight of online recommendation algorithms May 22, 2025 | MLex Staff

Oversight of information recommendation algorithms in China will strengthen, following last year’s campaign led by the country's Internet regulator, underscoring that algorithm governance is a long-term, syste... (more story)

Japanese parliament approves Satoru Tezuka as new data protection chief May 22, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki

Keio University Professor Satoru Tezuka received parliamentary approval today to become Japan’s new data protection chief. After securing support from the Upper House yesterday, lawmakers in the Lower House ap... (more story)

Instagram purchase a 'grand slam home run' by Meta, expert tells US trial May 22, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

Instagram would not have been as successful as it is today had it not been acquired by Meta Platform in 2012, an economic expert for the tech giant testified today while arguing that the US Federal Trade Commi... (more story)

US DOJ exploring quality of privacy protection as aspect of competition, official says May 22, 2025 | Mike Swift

As the US Department of Justice scrutinizes digital markets for antitrust problems, the agency is considering the quality of consumers’ privacy protections as one element of competition, a senior DOJ official ... (more story)

Platforms' addictive design to be a focus under EU's new Digital Fairness Act May 21, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter

Tech platforms' addictive designs will be covered under the Digital Fairness Act (DFA), a senior official from the European Commission said today. Despite criticism from the private sector, Maria-Myrto Kanello... (more story)

EU small mid-cap companies to see GDPR record-keeping obligations eased May 21, 2025 | Júlia Tar and Matthew Newman

Small mid-cap companies and organizations with fewer than 750 employees will no longer be required to maintain records of personal data processing activities in low-risk cases, under proposed changes to the EU... (more story)

Batteries and F-gas goods included in fourth EU simplification package May 21, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi

Battery makers and importers will have two more years to comply with due-diligence obligations, the European Commission said in its fourth fourth "omnibus" simplification package, published today. Importers an... (more story)

Crypto firms see UK minister acknowledge concern over lack of banking services (correct*) May 21, 2025 | Phoebe Seers

The UK government is in discussion with banks over the inability of cryptoasset business to access critical banking services, a minister has said. The crypto sector has long complained that they are shut out f... (more story)

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EU Digital Fairness Act lobbying asks questions over enforcement of current rules May 19, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter

Tech platforms including gaming, e-commerce and social media platforms are in lobbying mode over the planned EU Digital Fairness Act. While they don't see a new law as needed at all, consumer organizations sup... (more story)

A hundred days into US FTC under new chairman, don't call leadership regulators May 09, 2025 | Mike Swift and Ilana Kowarski

Last week marked 100 days since the start of Andrew Ferguson’s leadership of the US Federal Trade Commission, and while the new chairman has frequently talked the talk of a full-throated Trump populist, the wa... (more story)

Age-verification regulation at EU level is needed, Danish minister Stage says May 09, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter

Social media platforms’ age verification — intended to keep children out — needs to be regulated at the EU level, Denmark's digital minister told MLex in an interview. Caroline Stage Olsen said that platforms ... (more story)

US faces crunch to secure critical minerals May 01, 2025 | Bradley Dress

The US is accelerating efforts to secure more critical minerals as a bitter trade war and other constraints are sparking concerns about supply chain security in Washington. 

Relief for UK crypto industry as legislation lands and US collaboration promised April 30, 2025 | Phoebe Seers

The UK cryptoasset industry breathed a collective sigh of relief yesterday afternoon with sight of long-promised legislation laying the path toward a regulated sector. It broadly met industry expectations and ... (more story)

Privacy, AI leaders use IAPP global summit to grasp scale of regulatory change April 29, 2025 | MLex Staff

Among the world's leading privacy and artificial intelligence lawyers, regulators, tech leaders and academics at the 2025 IAPP Global Privacy Summit last week, talk was frequently about how jarringly different... (more story)

How do UK plans to upgrade cybersecurity rules measure up to EU's NIS2? (update*) April 24, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

UK companies this week finally received an outline of proposed cybersecurity reforms expected later this year. The UK aims to align its cybersecurity framework with the EU's NIS2 directive through the forthcom... (more story)

US FTC privacy regime to focus on tech competition, protecting children, Holyoak says April 23, 2025 | Mike Swift and Madeline Hughes

In a policy speech that signaled the US Federal Trade Commission’s return to “not stretching our legal authorities,” Commissioner Melissa Holyoak unveiled the Republican majority’s data privacy vision to bolst... (more story)