Data Privacy and Security

A broad range of tech companies are set to face a reform of the EU's consumer-enforcement structure, a senior European Commission official confirmed on Tuesday. The reform would allow the commission to take on... (more story)

Governance will be a main focus of the European Commission’s Digital Fitness Check, the head of its digital department, Roberto Viola, said on Monday. Dutch digital minister Willemijn Aerdts suggested moving e... (more story)

AI-powered malware is "highly likely" to be used in a ransomware attack on the UK's critical national infrastructure by 2028, the National Cyber Security Centre, or NCSC, warned in a report published Tuesday, ... (more story)

China's top prosecution office has highlighted cases targeting medical-data theft, sales of jobseekers’ information abroad and illegal trade in celebrities' location data, setting out enforcement priorities th... (more story)

Australia’s social media ban for under-16s imposes an unjustifiable restriction on political communication while failing to protect children from the risks it targets, Reddit argued as the country’s top court ... (more story)

The Western Australian Police Force has concluded Australia’s first police trial of live facial recognition, scanning almost 1.4 million faces and reporting 122 arrests, contact with 146 registered sex offende... (more story)

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's passport details and other personal information were exposed alongside those of 167 people aboard the presidential aircraft, prompting the country's privacy regulator to ... (more story)

An Australian class action against Meta Platforms over alleged social-media harms will return to court in February as a judge awaits a potentially competing lawsuit that another law firm expects to file in Jan... (more story)