Silicon Republic reports Ireland's Data Protection Commission is set to serve Microsoft with a USD425 million EU General Data Protection Regulation fine over LinkedIn's targeted advertising practices. The DPC reportedly issued a preliminary decision in April over the matter but the final decision has yet to be formally announced.
U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is investigating abuse of power complaints against U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, Reuters reports.
A Superior Court for the District of Columbia judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing Meta of deceptively sharing user data with third parties, The New York Times reports. Washington, D.C.'s attorney general filed the lawsuit in 2018, accusing Facebook of violating the district's consumer protection law, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
A paper published by Scientific Reports shows the results of a survey conducted in Germany, India and the U.S. on the potential for a digital payment application. The paper said there are privacy questions, noting, "we find strong reservations with regard to the involvement of multinational tech companies in establishing new digital mediums of exchange, while also finding contextual differences in acceptance levels between the studied populations."Full Story
Draft cybersecurity and privacy rules proposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission would require public companies to disclose board members with security knowledge or experience, as well as its approach to cybersecurity, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The future of artificial intelligence, organizational governance and regulation was top of mind at the IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2023. One focus included how to implement responsible AI systems that help companies with their data governance regimes, while upholding privacy for personal information.
Meta asked the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., to stop the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's move to expand a 2020 settlement that would ban the company from monetizing data of users under age 18, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Brazil's National Data Protection Authority announced it opened investigations into Meta's WhatsApp and TikTok. It noted the WhatsApp investigation involves "verification of compliance with the processing of personal data" regarding the platform's sharing of data with its parent company.