A German court decision to uphold a fine against leading property company Deutsche Wohnen over a data privacy breach has been applauded by Berlin's data watchdog despite a significant reduction in the penalty ... (more story)

A proposed overhaul of EU cookie rules has been scaled back in the latest compromise text on the European Commission's digital simplification package, with negotiators removing proposed General Data Protection... (more story)

KakaoPay has lost its court challenge against South Korea's privacy regulator over the transfer of roughly 40 million customers' personal data to Alipay, with a Seoul court ruling that the fintech company hand... (more story)

Coupang was hit with a record 624.7 billion won ($409 million) penalty by South Korea's privacy regulator on Thursday after a sweeping investigation found both a massive data breach affecting tens of millions ... (more story)

China's public security authority has published six criminal cases involving the illegal collection, sale or use of personal information, underscoring growing regulatory risks for the internet, e-commerce, rea... (more story)

The Australian government is developing "a digital duty of care" that will require online platforms to proactively identify and reduce risks of harm, particularly to children, through ongoing risk assessments,... (more story)

Telecommunications company Singtel Optus failed to take reasonable steps to protect its customers’ personal information from unauthorized disclosure in the White Pages directory, despite requests from the indi... (more story)

An evidentiary fight between Meta Platforms and 29 state attorneys general gives an early look at the boundaries both sides are trying to draw before a US trial in August on claims that Facebook and Instagram ... (more story)