Data Privacy and Security

All parts of the European Commission’s digital simplification package should remain on the table while EU governments and lawmakers debate the package, a commission official said Wednesday. Speaking at the onl... (more story)

US companies continue to see aggressive antitrust enforcement in South Korea as a regulatory risk, while facing growing exposure to larger privacy penalties, proposed platform regulations and a potential expan... (more story)

Online platforms could face growing pressure to take responsibility for content they share as recent EU rulings are tested in national courts, Thomas Fuchs, the privacy chief for the German state of Hamburg, t... (more story)

Australian businesses and government agencies may have to disclose in their privacy policies when they use artificial intelligence or other computer programs to help make decisions that significantly affect pe... (more story)

Tokyo-listed Park24 is investigating a data breach potentially affecting up to 6.6 million accounts following unauthorized access to its Times Car car-sharing service. The major Japanese parking and mobility-s... (more story)

The US finance industry must move carefully with developing artificial intelligence in payments due to an “asymmetry” in threat actors’ potential exploitation of vulnerabilities and the cybersecurity defense a... (more story)

EU negotiators tentatively agreed Tuesday on rules for online providers to search publicly accessible content for child sexual abuse material, but left detection orders for non-public content unresolved, MLex ... (more story)

Meta Platforms asked a US federal court to turn down a request by plaintiffs in the Flo Health privacy lawsuit for an award of $1.1 billion in damages, without more to be sought later, after the company was fo... (more story)