Data Privacy and Security

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)

Online marketplaces Vinted and eBay could be included in the UK’s planned social media ban for under-16s amid concerns that their messaging functions could be used to groom children. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said on Su...(read more)

TikTok could face an investigation by Spanish prosecutors after nonprofit Maldita.es reported finding more than 1,000 videos and images containing explicit child sexual abuse material on the platform. Spain’s youth and chi...(read more)

Japanese financial technology provider Trade Works has acknowledged that system design and operational shortcomings contributed to an October cyberattack affecting brokerage client Iwai Cosmo Securities, potentially exposi...(read more)

TikTok, Meta, YouTube and Snap urged Australian lawmakers on Monday to clarify the proposed digital duty-of-care, warning that vague harm categories and broad obligations could create compliance uncertainty and encourage r...(read more)