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Global privacy regulators handed out over $18 billion in fines over last decade
The cost of data privacy violations for the largest companies that trade in personal data continues to escalate, with the world's privacy regulators handing out mor... (more story)
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Meta, TikTok ask EU court to annul 'unfair' DSA supervisory fees (update*)
Meta Platforms and ByteDance’s TikTok called on EU judges today to annul fees imposed by the European Commission for supervision of their compliance with the EU’s D... (more story)
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Medibank's appeal over Deloitte report to be heard by Australian court panel
Australian health insurer Medibank Private’s appeal of a court decision to release a report prepared by Deloitte on its 2022 data breach to class-action applicants ... (more story)
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A US federal judge threw out a proposed $25 million settlement over claims GoodRx illegally shared sensitive health data with Google, Meta and Criteo, blasting both sides for failing to justify the deal as the... (more story)
Lawyers for Change Healthcare urged a federal judge in Minnesota to trim back litigation claims stemming from the largest healthcare data breach in US history in February 2024, saying consumer plaintiffs in th... (more story)
Even as a large, bipartisan group of US states sues to block the sale of bankrupt 23andMe’s genetic and other personal data, a court appointed privacy ombudsman issued a report late yesterday saying the sale o... (more story)
Digital platforms should expect proposals for new UK online safety measures that go beyond current legislation, technology minister Peter Kyle said today. A package of proposals "in the not too distant future"... (more story)
Meta’s WhatsApp unit has applied to intervene in Apple’s lawsuit against the UK Home Office over surveillance powers, the company confirmed today. The messaging platform told a London tribunal that the case co... (more story)
UK companies using and developing artificial intelligence are set to get more opportunities and clarity on using the technology when the government's data reform bill become law shortly and from the planned in... (more story)
France, Hungary and Ireland have joined Poland in backing an extension of a measure to allow messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal to continue voluntarily monitoring and reporting child sexual abuse material... (more story)
UK businesses have seen the long-awaited data reform passed in the UK Parliament, after the Data (Use and Access) Bill was agreed on yesterday by the House of Lords. The final version includes limited commitme... (more story)
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Business groups are urging northeastern states to rally around a single framework for data privacy, calling it the “New England model.” But lawmakers in Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont aren’t buying it, inste... (more story)
The cost of data privacy violations for the largest companies that trade in personal data continues to escalate, with the world's privacy regulators handing out more than $18 billion in monetary privacy sancti... (more story)
A new ruling addressing whether Google, via its website trackers, intended to receive sensitive personal data from health providers shows a divide continues to exist among federal judges in California over int... (more story)
After recommencing a Brazilian trial on the constitutionality of Article 19 of the nation's Internet Civil Rights Framework, Justice André Mendonça supplied the first pro-Big Tech vote so far. But other Suprem... (more story)
An ambitious, young, conservative leadership at the US Federal Trade Commission — many of them now parents who grew up as digital natives in the 2000s — appear to have the means and the determination to police... (more story)
This week’s conclusion by New Zealand’s privacy watchdog that a six-month facial-recognition trial by supermarket chain Foodstuffs North Island didn’t clash with the country’s privacy law may prove to be a Pyr... (more story)
As the US Department of Government Efficiency attempts to access data from state-run federal programs, it is now the third-party forcing businesses to choose: disclose information likely protected by state con... (more story)
The Supreme Court is set to vote today on two investigations into the constitutionality of Article 19, which sets that social media companies are generally not liable for third-party content unless they fail t... (more story)