Australia’s proposed digital duty-of-care law would allow social-media users to choose whether algorithmically recommended content appears in their feeds, while requiring online services to assess and mitigate... (more story)

Healing Paper, the operator of Gangnam Unni, reported a data breach affecting nearly 220,000 users to South Korea’s privacy regulator on Monday, putting the incident under preliminary review as the watchdog co... (more story)

Thailand has brought into force a new framework requiring state agencies to connect their information systems to a central digital-data sharing platform and respond to data requests from other agencies within ... (more story)

EU governments would revise proposed General Data Protection Regulation rules to clarify when pseudonymized data can fall outside the law, reinstate an AI provision on legitimate interest, revise cookie rules ... (more story)

Snap is facing a new Dutch collective action over the allegedly addictive design of Snapchat, illegal content and unlawful data processing, with claims relying on the Digital Services Act and other EU laws. Th... (more story)

South Korean K-pop fan-community platform Weverse reported a data breach to the country’s privacy regulator after the company acknowledged the exposure of information related to more than 422,000 account IDs. ... (more story)

Australia will this week release an exposure draft of its proposed “digital duty of care” law, under which social-media platforms could be required to give users more control over algorithmic feeds and meet ne... (more story)

Data the EU collects from online platforms like Airbnb and Booking.com could be used by local authorities to justify restrictions on short-term rentals under a new law to protect housing affordability, a draft... (more story)