Data Privacy and Security

A group of companies that compile and sell consumer profiles filed a lawsuit challenging an upcoming privacy law expanding consumers’ deletion rights in Connecticut over its constitutionality shortly before th... (more story)

International data transfers, enforcement and the way EU privacy rules account for risk would merit attention if there was a wider review of the EU's data protection law, a European Commission official has sai... (more story)

Pornography provider First Time Videos has paid an £80,000 fine and blocked access for UK users after online safety regulator Ofcom found it had breached its Online Safety Act duty to use highly effective age ... (more story)

Appeals by US tech companies including Google and Amazon against fines imposed by the French privacy watchdog have prompted the CNIL to strengthen its capacities to defend its decisions at the country’s highes... (more story)

All parts of the European Commission’s digital simplification package should remain on the table while EU governments and lawmakers debate the package, a commission official said Wednesday. Speaking at the onl... (more story)

US companies continue to see aggressive antitrust enforcement in South Korea as a regulatory risk, while facing growing exposure to larger privacy penalties, proposed platform regulations and a potential expan... (more story)

Online platforms could face growing pressure to take responsibility for content they share as recent EU rulings are tested in national courts, Thomas Fuchs, the privacy chief for the German state of Hamburg, t... (more story)

Australian businesses and government agencies may have to disclose in their privacy policies when they use artificial intelligence or other computer programs to help make decisions that significantly affect pe... (more story)