Mike Swift
Chief Global Digital Risk Correspondent at MLex Market Insight
Journalist at global crossroad of tech & law, focused on privacy, security. Chief Digital Risk Correspondent for @MLexclusive. Frmr @JSKStanford: [email protected]
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mlexwatch.com | Mike Swift
About Us Help Contact By Mike Swift ( June 24, 2025) -- Between 2022 and this January, the Federal Trade Commission carried out an unprecedented burst of data protection enforcement, with many of those cases based on the agency’s powers to police “unfair” business practices under the FTC Act.... Get instant access to the one-stop news source for business lawyers Register Now! Register for a complimentary 14-day trial with access to all sections and newsletters. Email (NOTE: Free email domains...
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mlex.com | Mike Swift
By Mike Swift ( June 23, 2025, 20:51 GMT | Comment) -- A Texas federal judge ruled that a jury, rather than the judge, will decide key liability issues on a Texas-led coalition of 17 states and territories' allegations that Google’s adtech business violates state antitrust and deceptive trade practice laws.
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mlex.com | Mike Swift
By Mike Swift ( June 20, 2025, 18:39 GMT | Comment) -- Judging that the "narrow, hollowed out, ideologically inflected conception" of Reagan-era privacy enforcement limited to deceptive conduct could no longer protect American consumers in the modern digital economy, former US Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan led what she and other former FTC officials called a “paradigm shift” in enforcement.
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mlex.com | Mike Swift
By Mike Swift ( June 16, 2025, 23:10 GMT | Comment) -- In a win for Meta Platforms and a setback for the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Canada's Supreme Court will consider whether to reverse an appeals court ruling which found last year that the former Facebook violated Canada's national private-sector privacy law through data-sharing practices that caused the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal in 2018.
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mlex.com | Mike Swift
By Mike Swift ( June 10, 2025, 16:36 GMT | Insight) -- Google has defeated class-action status in a third US privacy case against data collection through its Chrome browser, with a federal judge in California denying, with prejudice, a bid by users who hadn’t synced their browsers to their Google account to represent a nationwide class of millions of Chrome users.Google has defeated class-action status in a third US privacy case against data collection through its Chrome browser, with a...
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Schools have become kind of a loophole in #COPPA to avoid parental-consent limits on kids online says @megletajones Schools have been complete captured by Big Tech, particular since Covid
Schools have become kind of a loophole in #COPPA to avoid parental-consent limits on kids #privacy says Meg Leta Johns. "Schools have been completely captured by Big Tech, particular since Covid," she says, in part b/c schools can consent on behalf of parents. #FTCProtectKids
PANEL 2: How Can the FTC Help to Protect Kids Online? (11am) Next up – a discussion about how the @FTC can help protect kids online. Panelists: - Meg Leta Jones (@GeorgetownCCT) - Wes Hodges (@weshodges) - Jake Denton (@RealJDenton) - Moderator: FTC's Kate White #FTCProtectKids
