Data Privacy and Security

The Philippine Senate has approved a bill that would prohibit people under 18 from holding or using social-media accounts, setting up a potential clash with a House proposal that would allow teenagers access u... (more story)

Washington lawmakers are poised to revisit comprehensive privacy legislation as artificial intelligence raises new questions about how companies collect and use personal information. Washington state Represent... (more story)

Apple failed to defeat claims that the numerical faceprints generated by the Photos app constitute unique face-geometry scans collected or possessed without the consent required by Illinois' biometric privacy ... (more story)

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown said the state has fallen behind on consumer privacy protections despite its leadership in technology, but he doesn't expect lawmakers to introduce comprehensive privacy ... (more story)

Currys, formerly DSG Retail, has agreed to pay £200,000 to settle a long-running dispute over a penalty for a cyberattack that happened almost a decade ago, the Information Commission’s Office, or ICO, the UK'... (more story)

OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta Platforms have been questioned by the UK privacy regulator over reports of rogue AI agents bypassing protections and accessing external systems. The Information Commission’s Office h... (more story)

Privacy information and routes to exercise data rights have been updated by Anthropic, Apple, Meta and OpenAI following UK regulatory scrutiny, the Information Commission’s Office said on Thursday. The ICO's n... (more story)

the EU cybersecurity agency's role over artificial intelligence should be strengthened in further changes to a proposed revision of the Cybersecurity Act, the lead EU lawmaker on the proposal told a European P... (more story)