U.S. President Donald Trump announced a partnership between OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle that aims to develop USD100 billion worth of technology infrastructure to promote AI innovation, The New York Times reports. Trump said the project will "remove barriers to allow for the creation of more data centers" and encourage U.S. production of AI technology.Full story
A glitch within IT service company Cloudflare's system allegedly allows hackers to identify the approximate location of social media users, 404 Media reports. The independent security researcher who reported the issue said "Cloudflare partitions cache through data centers, and because of this bad actors can very easily correlate caches and triangulate user locations."Full story
British Prince Harry settled his lawsuit against News Group Newspapers for alleged illegal collection and sharing of phone information, BBC News reports. NGN apologized for unlawful activity and surveillance measures used to collect Prince Harry's information. Barrister David Sherborne said the settlement means the publisher is "finally held to account for its illegal actions and its blatant disregard for the law."Full story
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares alleged TikTok was intentionally designed to be addictive to children and to deceive parents about the content it makes visible to them in a lawsuit filed in Richmond Circuit Court, WVEC reports.
The European Data Protection Board recently released its report detailing the findings from the Coordinated Enforcement Framework's 2024 initiative examining implementation of the right of access under the EU General Data Protection Regulation. IAPP Staff Writer Lexie White reports on the EDPB's findings and specifics around contributions from data protection authorities.Full story
U.S. President Donald Trump rescinded former President Joe Biden's 2023 executive order calling for the safe development and use of AI as part of initial regulatory rollbacks by the new administration, TechCrunch reports.
The IAPP published its Global Legislative Predictions 2025. Digital responsibility professionals from 67 countries shared key insights with IAPP Associate Editor Jennifer Bryant on how the global digital regulatory landscape may evolve over the coming year.Full story
Lina Khan informed U.S. Federal Trade Commission staff she will resign from the agency "in the coming weeks," according to a memo reviewed by Reuters. Khan remains a commissioner, and helps maintain the agency's Democratic majority, after Andrew Ferguson assumed the FTC chair by appointment of President Donald Trump. The Republican majority will take shape when the Senate confirms Trump's nominee Mark Meador.Full story
The new Trump administration should not attempt to rescind former U.S. President Joe Biden's executive order establishing the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, Brookings Institute Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Governance Studies Cameron Kerry and American Enterprise Institute nonresident Senior Fellow Shane Tews write in Lawfare. "Disrupting this framework would endanger data flows that are vital to transatlantic trade and to businesses and consumers in both the U.S. and Europe," Kerry and Tews said. They noted 2,800 U.S.
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties and the Electronic Privacy Information Center filed the first-ever complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission under the Protecting Americans' Data from Foreign Adversaries Act against Google. The ICCL and EPIC alleged Google's real-time bidding online advertising system sends "enormous quantities" of sensitive personal data to China.