Jonathan Stempel reports: Idaho, which has a near-total ban on abortion, agreed not to prosecute or take away licenses of doctors who refer patients out of state to obtain the procedure, under a consent decree approved by a federal judge on Thursday. The decree prevents Idaho’s Republican Attorney General Raul Labrador and county prosecutors from…
As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out. Think twice before granting consent!
Jude Karabus reports: WeTransfer this week denied claims it uses files uploaded to its ubiquitous cloud storage service to train AI, and rolled back changes it had introduced to its Terms of Service after they deeply upset users. The topic? Granting licensing permissions for an as-yet-unreleased LLM product. Agentic AI, GenAI, AI service bots, AI…
Uganda orders Google to register as a data-controller within 30 days after landmark privacy ruling
The Fintech Association of Kenya announced an important ruling in Uganda: Uganda’s Personal Data Protection Office (PDPO) has ruled that Google LLC is a data controller/collector subject to the country’s Data Protection and Privacy Act. In a 18 July 2025 decision, the regulator declared Google in breach for operating without PDPO registration and for transferring Ugandans’ data abroad “without demonstrating adequate…
Meta investors, Zuckerberg reach settlement to end $8 billion trial over Facebook privacy violations
In 2019, the Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook $5 billion after finding that it failed to comply with a 2012 agreement with the FTC to protect users’ data. In the current lawsuit, which followed the Cambridge Analytica breach, Meta was not a defendant: the plaintiffs wanted the directors to pay out of their own pockets. …