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A lawsuit challenging the real-time bidding for targeted advertisements has had its first hearing after years of covid-related delay.

22 November 2023

An expert has bemoaned the lack of momentum in UK data protection enforcement.

22 November 2023

The Federal Trade Commission has allowed its staff to issue information requests without prior authorisation in AI-related cases.

22 November 2023

In-house counsel have provided some suggestions for proactively preparing for AI regulations.

22 November 2023

A judge has dismissed large parts of an IP class action against Meta’s LLaMA AI model, branding one of the plaintiffs’ theories “nonsensical”.

21 November 2023

Senior figures at European data protection authorities have suggested that even consent may not be a workable basis for targeted advertising, as Meta’s new ‘pay or OK’ strategy faces scrutiny.

21 November 2023

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has warned some of the country’s biggest websites that they face enforcement action if they do not bring their cookie banners into compliance with the law.

21 November 2023

The biggest AI news of the week came over the weekend, when OpenAI boss Sam Altman was dramatically defenestrated from his post and almost equally quickly put in charge of a new AI team at Microsoft – a course of events which seems to be quite the coup for Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella, who now holds the purse strings for the world’s most prominent AI company and has the biggest name in the business on the payroll.

20 November 2023

A judge has said a federal court cannot modify or terminate the Federal Trade Commission’s Twitter deal.

20 November 2023

European Data Protection Board ePrivacy Directive guidelines could extend the legislation’s application to emerging technologies.

20 November 2023