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)

UK providers of essential services and relevant digital and managed services will face a broader test for reporting cyber incidents under changes to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, after the government... (more story)

A file-sharing service has avoided a formal online safety probe in the UK after agreeing to strengthen its safeguards against child sexual abuse material, regulator Ofcom said on Friday, as it separately fined... (more story)

Japan’s largest online platforms do not necessarily have to go back to copyright complainants for more evidence before rejecting a takedown request, an Osaka court has ruled, in a decision backing X Corp.’s us... (more story)