South Dakota banned China-based AI application DeepSeek, following Texas and New York state (see 2502100024), Gov. Larry Rhoden (R) said Tuesday. In addition, it banned TikTok alternative RedNote pursuant to a 2023 executive order by former Gov. Kristi Noem (R).
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) Monday announced investigations into how three social media and video-sharing platforms use children's personal data. It's probing how TikTok uses personal data of teens 13 to 17 years old to make recommendations to them, and how Reddit and Imgur assess the age of child users.
The New Jersey Essex County Superior Court will dismiss the state's case against social media platform TikTok, Judge Lisa Adubato said in a notice Saturday.
TikTok isn’t sharing user data with China, and there’s no indication of “internal or external malicious activity” related to the company’s U.S. data security program, HaystackID said Friday.
Department store Bloomingdale's was hit with a class-action complaint Monday over violations of the California Invasion of Privacy Act for allegedly sharing personal information and data with social media platform TikTok without user consent.
TikTok moved to dismiss a case that New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin (D) brought for alleged violations of the state's consumer-protection law. The AG lacks jurisdiction to bring the case, and federal law bars many of its counts, the social media platform's motion said.
New York state's attorney general will likely play a more prominent role in privacy and cybersecurity oversight in 2025, said Morrison Foerster lawyers in a blog post Monday.
The Irish Data Protection Commission circulated a draft decision in a TikTok inquiry to other concerned supervisory authorities across the EU and European Economic Area (EEA), the Irish DPC said Monday.
Ireland will announce plans to introduce a Regulation of Artifical Intelligence Bill in its spring legislative program that will enact the EU AI Act into the country's law, AI attorney Barry Scannell, wrote in a post on LinkedIn Thursday. "[S]till in its early stages," the legislation would enact the EU AI Act into national law, said Scannell, a member of the country's AI Advisory Council. The council was established in 2024 by the Minister of State for Digital to provide independent expert advice to the government on AI policy.
The U.S. District Court of Montana ordered a stay of proceedings in a case about the state’s attempt at banning TikTok Wednesday, after the parties jointly moved for the motion.