General Motors’ recent $12.75 million settlement with California over its alleged mishandling of data isn't only the biggest fine in the history of the state’s privacy law, but shows that the state’s privacy e... (more story)

A new French law that grants confidentiality to certain documents drafted by in-house lawyers is out of favor with the national competition authority over an apparent conflict with EU law — and the regulator s... (more story)

European regulators debating cookie rules should talk frankly about how they can be reformed to improve EU web users' lives rather than opting for technical tweaks that won’t help them, the chief privacy watch... (more story)

The European Commission’s proposed changes to the definition of personal data go too far and may contradict EU case law because companies could escape privacy obligations by claiming they cannot identify indiv... (more story)

The scandal of X's Grok producing millions of sexualized deepfakes led to multiple probes early this year. None has concluded yet, though Brazil’s privacy regulator expects preliminary findings by June, while ... (more story)

Not so long ago, Raúl Torrez was a New Mexico county prosecutor, focused on putting murderers and members of drug cartels behind bars. Now the state's attorney general, Torrez is arguably one of the most promi... (more story)

Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority has moved into a new regulatory phase with legal and institutional consequences after becoming a federal regulatory agency — a shift that strengthens its decisional ... (more story)

The EU’s flagship AI Act was meant to be an example of the "Brussels effect," pioneering law that would inspire the word, but it ended up a target of the bloc’s simplification agenda to realize the goal of gre... (more story)