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The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a man convicted of possessing child pornography did not have his constitutional rights violated when Google scanned his account for harmful material. The court rejected defendant Rauch Sharak’s argument that Google is an agent of government and therefore violated his right to privacy in conducting a search [...]

West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey filed suit against Apple on Thursday, arguing that the company turned a blind eye to iCloud encryption methods that facilitate mass transmission of child pornography. The suit focuses on Apple iCloud and its use of end-to-end encryption, which makes digital files inaccessible to law enforcement. iCloud, which backs up and [...]

A deal between the US and China on TikTok that was finalized on January 22 concludes a years-long saga that put in peril the social media platform’s ability to function in the United States. US officials had long argued that TikTok, previously owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, posed national security risks. In particular, US [...]

A US federal court on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of a Texas law that requires users to verify their age before downloading mobile apps and accessing paid content online. Judge Robert Pitman of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas granted a preliminary injunction blocking AG Paxton from [...]

Over 20 rights groups welcomed Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi’s refusal to sign a highly criticized draft Criminal Code on Tuesday, calling it a step in the right direction. Sisi’s move sends the code back to parliament for revision. President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi refused to sign primarily due to Article 242 of the draft Code, [...]

US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Monday on X (formerly Twitter) that the UK has agreed to drop its mandate that Apple provide a “back door” to access encrypted data from American users.  The controversial Technical Capability Notice (TCN) was issued to Apple in January under Section 253 of the UK’s 2016 Investigatory [...]

Germany’s data protection commissioner, Meike Kamp, announced Friday that the country has requested Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek, an AI chatbot developed by Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co. Ltd., from their mobile app stores due to concerns over data security. Apple and Google must now review the notice and decide whether [...]

The French competition regulator, Autorité de la Concurrence, fined Apple on Monday $162 million over its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) tool. The regulator found that the ATT framework was unnecessarily complex and biased, violating French and EU privacy laws. The agency fined Apple because the consent required by ATT is burdensome for users, violating the [...]

Federal Judge Beth Labson Freeman of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, for a second time blocked the California Age Appropriate Design Code Act (CAADCA), stating that the plaintiff, NetChoice LLC, has adequately shown a likelihood of success on its First Amendment claim. Specifically, Freeman noted that NetChoice adequately established that [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) warned on Thursday that Türkiye’s newly approved cybersecurity bill could undermine press freedom by criminalizing legitimate reporting and granting the government extensive surveillance powers over cyberspace. The CPJ criticized the new law for imposing a prison sentence of two to five years for any individual who “knowingly creates or [...]