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 ga

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

Feb 22nd, 2024 22m 33s

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 pag

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

Feb 5th, 2024 16m 45s

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 th

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

Jan 29th, 2024 33m 7s

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,

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

Dec 14th, 2023 29m 4s

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, t

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

Dec 1st, 2023 30m 8s

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

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

Nov 28th, 2023 29m 51s

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’

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

Nov 2nd, 2023 35m 31s

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 protecti

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

Oct 9th, 2023 35m 49s

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 aroun

EU’s draft AI Act sparks lawmaker’s push for innovation and investment for ‘global standard’

Sep 27th, 2023 24m 45s

On today’s podcast we interview a leading European Union lawmaker about the EU’s proposed Artificial Intelligence Act. Eva Maydell, a member of the European Parliament involved in the final talks on the AI Act, discusses how the EU's pioneering

FTC Consumer - Protection Boss Sam Levine Takes On Privacy, Emerging Technologies

Sep 5th, 2023 30m 16s

Sam Levine, the new head of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, says he’s proud of his agency’s recent achievements on protecting the public by using the “very broad, flexible authority” conferred by the law. In an in-

DOJ And FTC Guidelines Shed Light On US Deal Reviews, While attracting Criticism

Jul 28th, 2023 11m 21s

New draft merger guidelines published by the US Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice appear designed to give the two antitrust enforcers a much-needed boost to how they tackle the review of big deals. The 13 principles outline

EU’s foreign-subsidy powers kick in amid debate and fears of red tape

Jul 25th, 2023 15m 44s

The European Union has new powers to police subsidies handed out by foreign governments — powers designed to ensure that state support doesn’t distort merger activity and public procurement. However, with new powers comes great responsibility —

European Union grapples with the fallout from the Fiona Scott Morton fiasco

Jul 20th, 2023 13m 7s

The ultimately unsuccessful attempt to hire an American competition expert to fill the coveted role of chief economist with the European Commission’s antitrust division has highlighted institutional divisions in the bloc. No-one involved in the

EU automakers step up opposition to bloc’s raft of regulation on emissions

Jul 14th, 2023 15m 46s

There’s a growing sense of frustration and disquiet among European carmakers, as they become increasingly vocal about how EU emissions policies will affect them. While they’re broadly on board with the need to build up the production of electri

The delicate balance underpinning the EU’s new economic-security strategy

Jul 7th, 2023 9m 11s

New rules designed to curb the European Union’s outbound investment in the name of geo-political security may prove politically fraught, with European business bristling at the announcement. At the heart of these new rules lies the hope that th

Digital-euro model deals banks into the game — but will consumers use it?

Jun 30th, 2023 8m 58s

On paper, the EU’s proposal to pursue a design for a digital euro should be viewed favorably by the bloc’s banks, because the model targets retail consumers, intermediated by banks and payment-service providers. This should allay the banks’ fea

EU’s clash with Google over ad businesses raises radical prospect of divestiture

Jun 23rd, 2023 17m 33s

Google is back in the European Union’s firing line over its ad businesses, with the bloc’s enforcer suggesting that the tech giant’s operations may be anticompetitive. But what’s truly radical about this most recent clash is the remedy that top

Sam Altman’s visit to Asia stimulates discussion about how to regulate AI

Jun 16th, 2023 20m 35s

The whirlwind tour of Asia by the head of OpenAI has been unfolding against the backdrop of growing concern over the need to regulate generative artificial intelligence. Yet the call by Sam Altman for authorities in Asia to consider a light-tou

The global rush to regulate artificial intelligence

Jun 9th, 2023 15m 59s

On today’s podcast we examine the regulatory scramble around the world to meet the challenge posed by artificial intelligence and its many applications. The European Union and the United States are urgently seeking to develop a code of conduct,

The tinkering designed to inject new life into the European Union’s antitrust weaponry

Jun 2nd, 2023 18m 37s

Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU has a glorious past, having been used by the bloc’s antitrust regulators to inflict real pain on Big Tech — including Microsoft, Google and Intel. But over the past few years, the tool has

The GDPR’s five-year anniversary is marked by record penalty targeting Meta

May 25th, 2023 22m 38s

Five years have gone by since the implementation of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation but managers at Meta Platforms aren’t likely celebrate the milestone. On Monday of this week, the tech giant’s Facebook social-media pla

Red tape and rigid regulators are blamed for thwarting the UK’s Brexit ambitions

May 19th, 2023 16m 40s

The “Brexit dividend” was the assurance that the United Kingdom’s economy stood to gain from the country leaving the European Union. The theory was that, once unshackled from the EU’s burdensome regulation, the UK be able to apply a light-touch

High inflation prompts some regulators to dig deep into their antitrust toolboxes

May 12th, 2023 13m 51s

With inflation rampant around the globe, antitrust authorities are facing public and political pressure to act against companies seen as using the global trend to ramp up prices. However, a lack of evidence of collusion has left many regulators

The UK regulator’s Microsoft-Activision Blizzard red light will be hard to reverse

May 5th, 2023 15m 3s

Microsoft has lashed out at the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority over its decision to veto the software giant’s $69 billion acquisition of gaming company Activision Blizzard. Microsoft President Brad Smith called the decision “the darkest