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Global privacy regulators handed out over $18 billion in fines over last decade
The cost of data privacy violations for the largest companies that trade in personal data continues to escalate, with the world's privacy regulators handing out mor... (more story)
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Meta, TikTok ask EU court to annul 'unfair' DSA supervisory fees (update*)
Meta Platforms and ByteDance’s TikTok called on EU judges today to annul fees imposed by the European Commission for supervision of their compliance with the EU’s D... (more story)
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Medibank's appeal over Deloitte report to be heard by Australian court panel
Australian health insurer Medibank Private’s appeal of a court decision to release a report prepared by Deloitte on its 2022 data breach to class-action applicants ... (more story)
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The US Office of Personnel Management will likely have to provide audits detailing records access by Department of Government Efficiency personnel, a federal judge in New York said today.
A pool of eleven school district and personal injury lawsuits filed against the biggest social media companies including Meta Platforms, Google and ByteDance have been selected for trial in a large-scale US li... (more story)
Google today publicly backed the EU’s “risk-based” approach to online age verification, including development of an EU-wide system and child-protection guidelines for online platforms covered by the Digital Se... (more story)
To curb the misuse of artificial intelligence, local Internet regulators in Beijing and Shanghai have begun conducting supervisory inspections, with the latter announcing administrative penalties against nonco... (more story)
Fifty tech-industry representatives have put their names forward to be part of a panel tasked with advising Australia’s online-safety regulator on defining the “reasonable steps” social-media companies must ta... (more story)
Telegram may have to slug it out in court with Australia’s online-safety regulator if it wants to avoid civil-penalty proceedings, after the messaging-service provider was told today to expect legal action if ... (more story)
A US federal judge threw out a proposed $25 million settlement over claims GoodRx illegally shared sensitive health data with Google, Meta and Criteo, blasting both sides for failing to justify the deal as the... (more story)
Lawyers for Change Healthcare urged a federal judge in Minnesota to trim back litigation claims stemming from the largest healthcare data breach in US history in February 2024, saying consumer plaintiffs in th... (more story)
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With a jury trial in San Francisco just over a month away over women's fertility app Flo Health's alleged illegal sharing of millions of US women's menstrual and pregnancy data with Google and Meta Platforms, ... (more story)
The installation of facial recognition security cameras at soccer stadiums in Brazil will be mandatory starting this Saturday, with the expiration of a two-year period that soccer clubs were given to implement... (more story)
US state lawmakers are taking aim at the use of pricing algorithms, whether they’re used for “surveillance pricing” to charge people different prices for goods like groceries or airline tickets, or to orchestr... (more story)
Business groups are urging northeastern states to rally around a single framework for data privacy, calling it the “New England model.” But lawmakers in Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont aren’t buying it, inste... (more story)
The cost of data privacy violations for the largest companies that trade in personal data continues to escalate, with the world's privacy regulators handing out more than $18 billion in monetary privacy sancti... (more story)
A new ruling addressing whether Google, via its website trackers, intended to receive sensitive personal data from health providers shows a divide continues to exist among federal judges in California over int... (more story)
After recommencing a Brazilian trial on the constitutionality of Article 19 of the nation's Internet Civil Rights Framework, Justice André Mendonça supplied the first pro-Big Tech vote so far. But other Suprem... (more story)
An ambitious, young, conservative leadership at the US Federal Trade Commission — many of them now parents who grew up as digital natives in the 2000s — appear to have the means and the determination to police... (more story)