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Coupang breach tied to stolen key, forged 'electronic pass,' South Korea finds
Coupang’s user-account system was exploited for months after a former employee allegedly stole a signing key and used it to forge an “electronic pass” that could cl... (more story)
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DOJ’s Hamer leaving Antitrust Division less than a year into job
Mark Hamer, a top enforcer in the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, is departing the agency less than a year after he was appointed deputy assistant at... (more story)
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Roblox, Discord, Snap, Meta face sprawling US litigation claiming child sexual assault
Roblox, Discord, Snap and Meta Platforms are facing new multidistrict litigation alleging they facilitated sexual predators' assaults against children on their plat... (more story)
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The Walt Disney Company will pay $2.75 million for making it too hard for Californians to stop their data from being shared and sold — the largest settlement under the state’s privacy law to date.
EU lawmakers are allocating key roles for the European Parliament’s work on the proposed Digital Networks Act and amendments to the Cybersecurity Act, setting the stage for negotiations on two files reshaping ... (more story)
A decree under Brazil's new child online protection law, to be signed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, sets out several types of content, products, and services that youth are prohibited from accessing ... (more story)
Google, TikTok, Amazon and Zalando have lodged challenges against their 2025 supervisory fees under the EU’s digital services law, MLex has learned. The cases follow a similar action brought by Meta Platforms ... (more story)
Changes to the definition of personal data proposed under the European Commission’s digital simplification package risk undermining fundamental rights and creating legal uncertainty, EU data protection authori... (more story)
UK ministers and regulators should have closer relationships to learn from each other and for the government to signal its intent, two separate parliamentary committees were told on Tuesday. They heard that mi... (more story)
China's top data authority has issued guidelines to expedite the development of a nationwide data market, with artificial intelligence emerging as a key priority in the government's push to unlock commercial v... (more story)
The claim that about 4.7 million social-media accounts believed to belong to under-16s were restricted within days of Australia’s new laws taking effect was based on legally binding disclosures from the compan... (more story)
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An older jury in New Mexico's landmark trial against Meta Platforms is getting a crash course in how social media works, along with internet language, as the trial in the state's consumer protection lawsuit ag... (more story)
The European Commission has told EU lawmakers that the Digital Services Act has had a “significant impact,” while noting that compliance remains unsatisfactory — a contrast underscored by ongoing enforcement a... (more story)
Meta Platforms’ appeal against a record €1.2 billion — the highest in the history of the EU’s data protection rules — has been unlocked after the EU’s highest court ruled that the social-media company can dire... (more story)
Amazon, Google and Microsoft could receive a tax holiday until 2047 on global cloud revenues if they route foreign workloads through Indian data centers, under India’s Budget 2026-27 push to attract AI investm... (more story)
State attorneys general have taken on Big Tobacco and opioids, garnering industry-changing settlements. They're now using the same playbook on a novel subject — social media — with the first of many expected t... (more story)
WhatsApp Ireland is set to learn next week whether it can challenge a decision by a group of EU data protection authorities before the EU courts — a precedent-setting ruling that could unblock related appeals ... (more story)
Data protection authorities across Europe and EU bodies flagged a considerable increase in data protection complaints in 2025, marking a record year for many. Authorities believe this may be driven by the wide... (more story)
The European Commission’s proposed changes to the definition of personal data in the digital simplification package — dubbed the Digital Omnibus — should be addressed in a broader debate along with an impact a... (more story)