Data Privacy and Security

FedEx will pay nearly $3 million to resolve allegations in California that it illegally shared consumers’ personal information via website-tracking tools but failed to disclose such practices to consumers or provide a mean...(read more)

The "cumulative effect" of increasingly complex EU laws poses fresh challenges for the EU’s lower-tier General Court, its new president, Savvas Papasavvas, said. He stressed that the judiciary was keeping pace with expandi...(read more)

UK businesses using facial recognition should also be overseen by the government's planned biometrics regulator and face a legal duty to abide by its private-sector code, the Ada Lovelace Institute, an influential research...(read more)

The EU's planned digital legislation package should enable cloud providers to be exempt from some obligations that help customers change suppliers under certain older contracts, a European Parliament committee has recommen...(read more)

Australia’s proposed digital duty-of-care law could include clearer obligations and definitions of harm to make enforcement easier for the online safety regulator, a top official said. Appearing at a Senate inquiry into th...(read more)

Anthropic will face a formal investigation by South Korea’s privacy regulator over a security incident that may have exposed personal information tied to more than 100 corporate accounts in the country that use its Claude ...(read more)

Restoring services quickly is now as important as preventing attacks as artificial intelligence has transformed the cybersecurity landscape, a South Korean security policy official told MLex in an interview, citing recent ...(read more)

The Washington DC attorney general’s suit alleging Meta Platforms misrepresented its privacy protocols will move forward, a DC judge ruled Friday, denying Meta’s request for partial summary judgment in the case over its co...(read more)