U.S. President Donald Trump rescinded former President Joe Biden's 2023 executive order calling for the safe development and use of AI as part of initial regulatory rollbacks by the new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.
According to DLA Piper's GDPR Fines and Data Breach Survey 2025, last year's EU General Data Protection Regulation fines totaled 1.2 billion euros. The survey explored developing enforcement trends and "the dawn of personal liability" for company executives.Full story
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission fined game developer Cognosphere USD20 million for, among other claims, allegations of insufficient parental notice and consent around children's data collection under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Rule.
Poland's data protection authority, the Urząd Ochrony Danych Osobowych, fined Toyota Bank Polska PLN576,220 for failing to register data profiling in its list of data processing activities and not hiring an independent data protection officer. With the DPO claims, the UODO alleged the bank's data protection contact worked in an adjacent department and "did not report directly to the bank's top management."Full story
A long-running lawsuit in the U.K. brought by British Prince Harry against The Sun newspaper and the shuttered News of the World for allegedly intercepting his voicemails heads to trial, BBC News reports. This is the first instance News Group Newspapers, the parent company of The Sun, has had to face claims its subsidiary publications engaged in systemic hacking of Prince Harry's communications, which was discovered in 2006.Full story
The Irish Times reports Meta filed an appeal with Ireland's High Court to overturn a 91 million euro fine the country's Data Protection Commission imposed for improperly storing user passwords. The company argued the DPC levied a penalty disproportionate to the infraction.Full story