South Korea's expanded data-portability regime allows scraping during transition
August 13, 2026
| Wooyoung Lee
South Korean public institutions and companies will be required to provide secure mechanisms for customers to transfer their personal data under an expanded data-portability regime taking effect from Aug. 20. ... (more story)
South Korea's AI personal-data carve-out faces pushback ahead of expected passage
August 13, 2026
| Jenny Lee
South Korean civic groups making a last-ditch push to stop legislation that would allow companies to use raw, identifiable personal data to train AI systems without consent, as the measure heads toward an expe... (more story)
Jury seated for Meta youth-safety trial in US court
August 13, 2026
| Maria Dinzeo
A US federal judge seated an eight-member advisory jury to hear claims by California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey that Meta misled the public about youth safety, addictiveness and underage users while vi... (more story)
Meta safety-expert panel a ‘sham,’ former advisor says in Tennessee trial
August 12, 2026
| Xu Yuan
A Danish psychologist who was on an expert panel at Meta Platforms for self-harm and suicide told a jury in Tennessee that she quit the role after concluding that the initiative only served a “window shopping”... (more story)
UK police unit’s unclear cyber responsibilities contributed to GDPR breaches, ICO says
August 12, 2026
| Imogen Howse
The failure by ACRO — the UK’s criminal records office — to clearly assign responsibility for critical cybersecurity updates and alerts contributed to UK GDPR infringements that put the personal information of... (more story)
Manus confirms Meta separation, outlines user-data deletion plan
August 12, 2026
| MLex Staff
Artificial intelligence startup Manus has confirmed it is separating from Meta Platforms and returning to independent operations, nearly four months after Chinese authorities blocked Meta’s acquisition of the ... (more story)
Australian court rules X not subject to online-safety standard
August 12, 2026
| Sean Maguire and Saloni Sinha
X Corp. has won its challenge to an Australian online-safety standard aimed at curbing harmful content, with the court ruling that X is a social-media service and cannot also be regulated as a messaging servic... (more story)
China police detail 10 personal-data crime cases across industries
August 12, 2026
| MLex Staff
Chinese police highlighted 10 criminal cases involving the illicit collection and trading of personal information across different industries, with millions of records allegedly used for marketing, fraud and p... (more story)