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South Korea's Woori Card fined $9.2 million for unauthorized personal data use March 27, 2025 | Jenny Lee

Woori Card, a major South Korean credit card company, has been fined 13.5 billion won (about $9.2 million) by the country's privacy regulator for illegally using the personal data of merchant owners without pr... (more story)

Slaughter worried about fate of antitrust lawsuit against PBMs after her firing March 27, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, who was recently fired as Federal Trade Commissioner, told US lawmakers today that she is worried about the fate of a lawsuit the FTC brought against pharmacy benefit managers as no si... (more story)

UK software provider Advanced gets data breach fine halved March 27, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo

UK software provider Advanced, now trading as OneAdvanced, got a data breach fine lowered by 50 percent after reaching an agreement with the Information Commissioner’s Office to pay a reduced amount without an... (more story)

OpenAI, Microsoft will face bulk of news outlets’ copyright claims March 26, 2025 | Emma Whitford and Melissa Ritti

Tech giants OpenAI and Microsoft will continue to face copyright infringement claims, US District Judge Sidney H. Stein ordered today, in three lawsuits alleging that ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot trained il... (more story)

Child online safety subject of partisan debate in House hearing March 26, 2025 | Madeline Hughes

A week after being removed from the Federal Trade Commission by President Donald Trump, former Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter testified about the commission’s enforcement to protect children online as De... (more story)

Meta ordered to unwind historic data benefits in EU’s Marketplace decision March 26, 2025 | Lewis Crofts

Meta Platforms was told to retrain its online ad model to remove the historic benefits of data gathered during an antitrust abuse, according to a European Commission decision published today. In November, the ... (more story)

Brazil, EU near agreement on mutual-adequacy deal, EU Commission official says March 26, 2025 | Matthew Newman

Brazilian and European Union authorities are close to reaching a mutual-adequacy arrangement for data flows, a senior European Commission official said today. The mutual adequacy decision “could significantly ... (more story)

GDPR simplifications for SMEs to be unveiled soon, EU commissioner says March 26, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter

A targeted GDPR simplification proposal focused on record keeping requirements for smaller companies will be presented in the coming weeks, justice commissioner Michael McGrath said today. He said that there i... (more story)

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Urgent regulatory plans stuck in Australian electoral purgatory March 26, 2025 | James Panichi and Saloni Sinha

Rulemaking in Australia is about to shut down, with the government set to call an election and usher the country into more than a month of “caretaker” mode in which no significant decisions can be made. This i... (more story)

Baidu doxxing scandal reveals insider leaks, China's real-name registration risk March 26, 2025 | MLex Staff

A doxxing scandal involving the teenage daughter of a Baidu executive has fueled concerns and criticism about the tech giant's data security management. Critics are also raising alarms about the risks of insid... (more story)

New head of California privacy regulator brings history in business, policy advocacy March 25, 2025 | Xu Yuan and Mike Swift

Tom Kemp, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, tech investor and active policy advisor, will take the reins as executive director of the California Privacy Protection Agency on April 1. His business background is co... (more story)

How Cambridge Analytica catalyzed privacy, antitrust scrutiny of Big Tech March 21, 2025 | Mike Swift

Seven years ago this week, a Facebook in-house lawyer put up a blog post acknowledging a rogue app developer had shared millions of users’ data with data-mining company Cambridge Analytica, despite having no d... (more story)

EU-UK data adequacy renewal may still face hurdles March 21, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo and Sara Brandstätter

Despite a six-month extension, the renewal of the EU-UK data adequacy status could still face challenges as the UK government rushes to get its Data (Use and Access) Bill ready to face scrutiny by EU officials... (more story)

Lessons from a Japanese fiasco on AI tool for child abuse detection March 21, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki

The Japanese Children and Families Agency's recent decision to delay the national rollout of an artificial intelligence tool designed to detect child abuse has highlighted important lessons for Japan, where th... (more story)

Democratic US FTC commissioners say firings undermine agency independence March 21, 2025 | Mike Swift

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya are challenging their firings from the US Federal Trade Commission, saying President Trump's actions are illegal and potentially undermine the FTC's independent consum... (more story)

US judges push limits of California's 'limited' private right of action March 20, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

The limits of California’s “limited” private right of action under the California Consumer Privacy Act are being tested in federal court with a pair of rulings that suggest US judges may be taking a broader vi... (more story)