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Coupang breach tied to stolen key, forged 'electronic pass,' South Korea finds
Coupang’s user-account system was exploited for months after a former employee allegedly stole a signing key and used it to forge an “electronic pass” that could cl... (more story)
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DOJ’s Hamer leaving Antitrust Division less than a year into job
Mark Hamer, a top enforcer in the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, is departing the agency less than a year after he was appointed deputy assistant at... (more story)
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Roblox, Discord, Snap, Meta face sprawling US litigation claiming child sexual assault
Roblox, Discord, Snap and Meta Platforms are facing new multidistrict litigation alleging they facilitated sexual predators' assaults against children on their plat... (more story)
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EU digital simplification plans as proposed would fold rules on public-sector data reuse into the Data Act, introduce a lighter regime for certain customized cloud services and expand safeguards for trade secr... (more story)
South Korea has handed companies a far sharper set of financial and compliance consequences for mishandling personal information, after parliament on Thursday passed revisions to the Personal Information Prote... (more story)
Luxury fashion houses Louis Vuitton Korea, Christian Dior Couture Korea and Tiffany Korea have been fined a combined 36 billion won ($24.9 million) after South Korea’s privacy watchdog concluded that customer ... (more story)
A US magistrate judge in California limited how a Japanese publisher could use identifying information obtained through a Digital Millennium Copyright Act subpoena against Cloudflare, holding that the fast-tra... (more story)
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri testified for over five hours in a Los Angeles trial Wednesday over alleged addictive social media design, facing tough questions about whether Meta prioritized growth over youth s... (more story)
Meta Platforms sought to discredit one of its former engineering directors Wednesday during cross-examination in a New Mexico trial by asking why he was “lingering” on “disgusting” videos during his alleged te... (more story)
A federal judge overseeing the nationwide social media addiction MDL set trial dates on Wednesday and outlined how the first state case against Meta Platforms will be tried, as years of litigation over Faceboo... (more story)
Brazil’s online safety law, known as the Digital Statute for Children and Adolescents, or ECA Digital, will take effect in March, with a primary focus on age-verification methods to safeguard minors’ rights in... (more story)
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An older jury in New Mexico's landmark trial against Meta Platforms is getting a crash course in how social media works, along with internet language, as the trial in the state's consumer protection lawsuit ag... (more story)
The European Commission has told EU lawmakers that the Digital Services Act has had a “significant impact,” while noting that compliance remains unsatisfactory — a contrast underscored by ongoing enforcement a... (more story)
Meta Platforms’ appeal against a record €1.2 billion — the highest in the history of the EU’s data protection rules — has been unlocked after the EU’s highest court ruled that the social-media company can dire... (more story)
Amazon, Google and Microsoft could receive a tax holiday until 2047 on global cloud revenues if they route foreign workloads through Indian data centers, under India’s Budget 2026-27 push to attract AI investm... (more story)
State attorneys general have taken on Big Tobacco and opioids, garnering industry-changing settlements. They're now using the same playbook on a novel subject — social media — with the first of many expected t... (more story)
WhatsApp Ireland is set to learn next week whether it can challenge a decision by a group of EU data protection authorities before the EU courts — a precedent-setting ruling that could unblock related appeals ... (more story)
Data protection authorities across Europe and EU bodies flagged a considerable increase in data protection complaints in 2025, marking a record year for many. Authorities believe this may be driven by the wide... (more story)
The European Commission’s proposed changes to the definition of personal data in the digital simplification package — dubbed the Digital Omnibus — should be addressed in a broader debate along with an impact a... (more story)