The proposed EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework is an improvement, but not enough to justify an adequacy decision on personal data transfers, say MEPs in a resolution.| www.europarl.europa.eu
Canadian privacy authorities say TikTok’s efforts to keep children off the platform and prevent the collection and use of their sensitive personal information are “inadequate” but the company is taking steps to address concerns.| AP News
China is accusing the U.S. of spreading disinformation amid reports the Biden administration is calling for TikTok's Chinese owners to sell their stakes in the company.| AP News
The European Union has reached a landmark deal to take aim at hate speech, disinformation and other harmful content online.| AP News
The European Union and United States made a breakthrough in their yearslong battle over the privacy of data that flows across the Atlantic with a preliminary agreement that paves the way for Europeans’ personal information to be stored in the U.S.| AP News
NEW YORK (AP) — European regulators have fined Amazon 746 million euros ($886 million) for data protection violations.| AP News
LONDON (AP) — EU regulators must make more effort to stop tech companies from transferring data to countries with weaker data-protection standards, an advisor to the European Union’s top court said Thursday.| AP News
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order designed to allay European concerns that U.S. intelligence agencies are illegally spying on them.| AP News
Authorities say that social media platforms should not require age verification for all users when a ban on children under 16 having accounts goes into effect in December in Australia.| AP News
Apple wants the European Union to repeal its Digital Markets Act, arguing it delays new features like live translation for AirPods.| AP News
The European Union’s top court ruled Thursday that an agreement that allows thousands of companies — from tech giants to small financial firms — to transfer data to the United States is invalid because the American government can snoop on people's data.| AP News
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has written a memoir, telling his life story in detail for the first time and explaining why he chose to risk his freedom to become perhaps the most famous whistleblower of all time.| AP News
