Legislation & Regulation

FTC says Microsoft’s layoffs at Activision Blizzard may threaten merger approval

The FTC has expressed dissatisfaction with Microsoft's layoffs at Activision Blizzard, challenging the integrity of the Microsoft-Activision deal. Despite Microsoft's earlier court assurances of...

Defence department upbraided for not doing PIAs on data extraction tools

Senior Canadian Defence Department IT officials have been rebuked by an MP for not doing a privacy impact assessment on software that can extract personal data from military members’ government-issued computing devices. Parliament’s privacy and ethics committee has been looking into a news report that 13 federal departments — including defence — have access to

Government vows to address corporate privacy worries in proposed cybersecurity law

Department officials tell MPs that government 'is aware of privacy concerns' of private sector about proposed cybersecurity incident rep

Government aims at restricting China from training AI on US cloud data

The U.S. government is intensifying its stance in the ongoing technological rivalry with China, particularly in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI) development. U.S....

OpenAI strikes deal with large German publisher Axel Springer

The European Union recently enacted the EU AI Act, mandating that foundational AI models, including those by OpenAI, adhere to stringent transparency requirements before...

Microsoft’s OpenAI investment draws scrutiny by FTC

Microsoft faces a potential investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding its significant investment in OpenAI. The FTC's inquiry centers around antitrust...

U.S. warns NVIDIA against redesigning chips for China amid export regulation challenges

NVIDIA has received a warning from U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo regarding its efforts to redesign chips for the Chinese market in response to...

China approves Broadcom-VMWare merger, last hurdle is cleared

The long-anticipated merger between Broadcom and virtualization giant VMware has been approved by Chinese regulatory authorities, marking the end of a significant phase of...

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