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Trump’s firing of FTC Commissioner Slaughter ‘unlawful,’ US court says
President Donald Trump's firing of US Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter was "unlawful and without legal effect," a US federal judge said today whil... (more story)
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US appeals court lifts block on Mississippi online age-verification law
Mississippi can begin enforcing its social media age-verification law after a federal appeals court paused a lower court’s ruling that had blocked the measure on Fi... (more story)
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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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A US federal judge has refused to dismiss privacy and wiretapping claims against data broker LiveRamp, finding that plaintiffs have adequately shown that it may have unlawfully tracked and compiled detailed pr... (more story)
Scott Zuckerman, a businessman who is subject to data security-related obligations imposed by the US Federal Trade Commission for selling stalking apps, is asking the agency to remove some or all of what he ca... (more story)
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman sued Chinese e-commerce giant Temu, accusing the company of operating a spyware-laden shopping app that secretly harvests user data and sends it to China in violation ... (more story)
Individuals joining a mass claim over a UK Ministry of Defence data breach are growing by more than 100 a day, the lawyer handling the claim told MLex. The breach exposed personal details of almost 19,000 Afgh... (more story)
The UK's data privacy regulator has hired a senior executive from Google to be its new executive director of regulatory risk and innovation starting on August 26. The Information Commissioner’s Office said Wil... (more story)
A Chinese Internet court has ruled against a Beijing-based legal-tech firm and its subsidiary in a personal data infringement case, setting limits on the use of publicly disclosed information. The Guangzhou In... (more story)
Meta Platform’s recent comments recommending that lawmakers shun “specific technical standards or compliance mechanisms” in favor of a more general and business-friendly approach to avoid hampering the develop... (more story)
A law firm has filed a representative complaint with the country’s privacy regulator over the recent Qantas data breach that exposed the personal information of six million customers of Australia’s largest air... (more story)
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Meta Platforms and Flo Health are scheduled to face a federal jury in San Francisco Monday in what would be an unprecedented jury trial over privacy claims against the social media giant and the app that calls... (more story)
Despite intense efforts, South Korea is falling behind in the global race to commercialize autonomous driving technology, with the US and China having already deployed Level 4 autonomous vehicles in major citi... (more story)
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)