The Dutch privacy watchdog will be required by law to publish its financial sanctions for data violations, starting Sept 1. The changes are part of an amendment to the country’s privacy regulation, which also ... (more story)

Australia has released draft changes to the 1988 Privacy Act that would introduce a limited right to erasure from large digital platforms, a fair and reasonable test for data handling, stronger consent rules a... (more story)

Advanced artificial intelligence models pose a risk to global financial stability through their potential impact on cybersecurity, Andrew Bailey, head of the Financial Stability Board, told the Group of 20 eco... (more story)

GS Retail has been fined 12.8 billion won ($9.3 million) by South Korea’s privacy regulator after credential-stuffing attacks exposed personal information belonging to more than 1.6 million users of its GS Sho... (more story)

Seven online services hosting harmful content have blocked UK access after Ofcom launched an enforcement program examining their compliance with the Online Safety Act's child-protection duties, the regulator s... (more story)

South Korea’s state childcare and adoption agency stored sensitive children’s data on poorly secured devices and lacked basic controls to track their movement, a privacy official told MLex. The privacy regulat... (more story)

Apple told a federal judge in East St. Louis, Illinois, that because data that can be used to group similar faces is fully encrypted after it leaves a user's device, its iPhone Photos app couldn't have violate... (more story)

Meta Platforms’ $17.1 billion settlement with more than 50 attorneys general across the US will mostly go to states’ consumer protection funds, with some states directing funds specifically to programs associa... (more story)