Mike Swift is the Chief Global Digital Risk Correspondent at MLex. He has spent over a decade covering critical issues at the intersection of technology and law, with a focus on privacy, security, data protection, and cybersecurity regulatory news. Mike's work has been featured in MLex Market Insight, Essex Live News, Bracknell Town, and Built In.
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Mike Swift's primary focus is on legal and policy regulation in the technology industry, particularly concerning privacy laws, data protection, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. He often includes government announcements and expert commentary in his coverage.
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By Mike Swift ( October 20, 2026, 00:16 GMT | Comment) -- With a first bellwether trial over how social media design affected
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By Mike Swift ( October 20, 2026, 22:06 GMT | Insight) -- A US judge in San Francisco urged settlement talks in British Columbia's
A US judge in San Francisco urged settlement talks in British Columbia's highly unusual lawsuit accusing OpenAI of negligence in failing to alert Canadian police to the Tumbler Ridge shooter's alarming ChatGPT interactions — notice the province says would have prevented the deadliest school shooting in Canada in decades. OpenAI argues Canadian courts — not US ones, where British Columbia and other plaintiffs are seeking jury trials — should hear the claims. US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley will hear OpenAI's forum challenge in December.
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By Mike Swift, Xu Yuan and Madeline Hughes ( October 21, 2026, 20:28 GMT | Insight) -- A New Mexico judge imposed a billion
By Mike Swift ( October 22, 2026, 00:19 GMT | Insight) -- Legal costs were again a key element of the percent jump in
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By Mike Swift ( October 22, 2026, 22:44 GMT | Insight) -- A federal judge in San Jose, California, said he won't grant a
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By Mike Swift ( October 23, 2026, 19:33 GMT | Insight) -- SpaceX said in a US securities filing that it could face a
By Mike Swift ( October 27, 2026, 01:08 GMT | Insight) -- OpenAI faces US court litigation alleging its advertising pixel secretly tracks
By Mike Swift ( October 27, 2026, 20:10 GMT | Insight) -- A federal judge in San Francisco said Tuesday that she has no
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By Mike Swift ( October 28, 2026, 22:14 GMT | Insight) -- OpenAI is asking British Columbia's Supreme Court to quash a privacy
