Data Privacy and Security

Currys, formerly DSG Retail, has agreed to pay £200,000 to settle a long-running dispute over a penalty for a cyberattack that happened almost a decade ago, the Information Commission’s Office, or ICO, the UK'... (more story)

OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta Platforms have been questioned by the UK privacy regulator over reports of rogue AI agents bypassing protections and accessing external systems. The Information Commission’s Office h... (more story)

Privacy information and routes to exercise data rights have been updated by Anthropic, Apple, Meta and OpenAI following UK regulatory scrutiny, the Information Commission’s Office said on Thursday. The ICO's n... (more story)

the EU cybersecurity agency's role over artificial intelligence should be strengthened in further changes to a proposed revision of the Cybersecurity Act, the lead EU lawmaker on the proposal told a European P... (more story)

UK fashion retailer Asos has confirmed that a hacker gained access to personal customer information — including names and contact details — after impersonating a trusted contact to obtain an employee’s login c... (more story)

The 10-member global network of AI safety institutes discussed leading international efforts to develop standards for risks and harms associated with advanced artificial intelligence at an online meeting early... (more story)

A ransomware attack on SoftBank-owned cloud provider IDC Frontier has exposed vulnerabilities in Japanese municipalities' disaster-recovery arrangements, with at least one prefecture reporting that it was unab... (more story)

Meta Platforms' Instagram and Facebook remain classified as high-risk platforms under Indonesia's online child-protection rules despite introducing Teen Account safety features and blocking 184,000 accounts be... (more story)