MLex Market Insight

May 02 2024 328 ep. 17 mins 183

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Listen in as MLex expert contributors discuss some of the most important developments in regulatory risk and opportunity worldwide.

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Privacy Matters: Navigating Enforcement & Risks in 2024

May 02 2024 33 mins

In April, MLex Chief Global Digital Risk Correspondent Mike Swift sat down with Benjamin Wiseman, the US Federal Trade Commission's Associate Director, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, for a deep-dive discussion of pressing privacy issues for 2024—including child privacy and addictive algorithms, healthcare data, personal data autonomy and unfair use of AI.

MLex’s IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2024 roundtable recap

Apr 18 2024 27 mins

As 5,000 lawyers, regulators, academics and technologists convened for the International Association of Privacy Professionals Global Privacy Summit 2024, a team of MLex journalists were in Washington DC to chronicle the most important yearly gathering of the world’s privacy community. Covering GPS panels on artificial intelligence, data transfers and an array of privacy issues, a

Poland's Justice Minister Bodnar makes closer EU ties a top priority

Feb 22 2024 22 mins

Polish Justice Minister Adam Bodnar talks about his country's steps to reverse eight years of policies by the previous government. Bodnar, a former human rights commissioner, wants to show European Union officials that Poland has turned the page from the Law and Justice Party. Restoring ties with the EU — and unblocking EU funds that were suspended over a rule-of-law dispute —

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen on the fallout from her decision to come forward

Feb 05 2024 16 mins

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen talks about the regulatory and legal fallout that followed her release of documents to the press that detailed internal studies about how Facebook’s algorithm worked. She’s now using her nonprofit Beyond the Screen to push for regulatory change as the company is fighting hundreds of lawsuits for allegedly harming its youngest users for big

Clearview AI founder Hoan Ton-That on weathering a global regulatory storm, and the road ahead

Jan 29 2024 33 mins

Even as it surpasses a database of 40 billion faces to train its algorithms, the founder and chief executive of Clearview AI told MLex in an exclusive interview that it isn't going back to doing business in Europe, the UK, Canada or Australia, where the controversial facial-recognition startup has faced regulatory opposition. In the US, however, Clearview has put many of its most t

Clash over Australia’s new merger laws focuses on future role of Federal Court

Dec 14 2023 29 mins

Australian merger laws are facing a revamp, amid concerns that the voluntary-notification system was being gamed by global dealmakers. But while there’s broad agreement that the voluntary component of the existing regime needs to be scrapped, there are divisions about which model Australia should embrace. The antitrust regulator is campaigning for a formal but speedy model; lawye

EU digital chief Jourová tells Big Tech bosses to improve content moderation amid Israel-Hamas war

Dec 01 2023 30 mins

Věra Jourová is a Czech politician and lawyer who has been European Commissioner for Values and Transparency since 2019. She previously served as the EU’s Justice Commissioner. More recently, she has added digital duties after the EU’s digital commissioner Margethe Vestager took a leave of absence. Jourová is now responsible for the enforcement of the Digital Services Act, t

Talus, Assuming Chair Of The EDPB, Aims To Cut New Tracks

Nov 28 2023 29 mins

Anu Talus, who succeeded Andrea Jelinek to become the second chair of the European Data Protection Board in May, hopes to build on Jelinek’s work as she focuses on making GDPR enforcement more coherent, efficient and harmonized across the bloc’s member states. In an extended conversation with MLex on the sidelines of the Global Privacy Assembly meetings this year, Talus discuss

In cases like Snap AI chatbot, Edwards seeks ‘agile enforcement’ for final three years as ICO chief

Nov 02 2023 35 mins

Approaching his second anniversary as the UK’s Information Commissioner, John Edwards believes the culture change he has led since taking the job at the start of 2022 has the regulator ready for an “agile” spectrum of responses to data protection problems. Sitting down with MLex recently for an extended conversation at the Global Privacy Assembly meetings in Bermuda, Edwards

How DeLaine Prado believes Google can avoid ‘race to the bottom’ on privacy

Oct 09 2023 35 mins

Halimah DeLaine Prado is Google’s top lawyer, leading what she describes as an in-house, multidisciplinary law firm within the tech giant. As Google marks its 25th birthday this fall, it has rarely, if ever, been under more legal pressure around the world, including multiple antitrust and privacy trials in the US that could force changes to the crown jewels of its business – se