WhatsApp's voluntary age-verification pilot tests whether India's child-privacy regime can protect minors while preserving encryption, minimizing data collection and meeting regulators' parental consent requir... (more story)

California, the state that has been leading privacy enforcement in both the US and the world, has a new tool to look into how companies handle data. Sabrina Ross, the person who will be wielding that power, wi... (more story)

The EU is no longer debating only whether to create a digital euro, but what kind of payment instrument it should become. Make-or-break choices are now at the negotiating table of EU lawmakers and governments,... (more story)

A restored legal framework for online platforms to voluntarily detect child sexual abuse material under revived interim EU rules ended months of uncertainty that left companies taking different compliance appr... (more story)

Meta faces a potential $6 billion damages bill from a landmark privacy verdict over reproductive-health data collected from Flo app users, adding to mounting litigation costs already weighing on the company’s earnings.

Reddit can pursue US Digital Millennium Copyright Act claims against answer engine Perplexity AI and web scraper SerpApi, as it continues to fight a data scraping practice useful in artificial intelligence mod... (more story)

Beginning in August, California’s new, powerful platform targeting data brokers will start processing consumers’ requests to delete all their personal data, as the state continuously seeks to step up the prote... (more story)

The National Data Protection Agency (ANPD) will face the departure of two of its longest-serving officials: Waldemar Gonçalves Ortunho Júnior, the watchdog's president, will officially leave office on Nov. 6, ... (more story)