American Express Australia breached the country’s privacy laws by failing to take reasonable steps to protect a customer's personal information from unauthorized access by an employee, the privacy regulator ha... (more story)

UK plans for an under-16s ban on social media platforms including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X will involve the online safety regulator conducting a "rapid study" of the technology need... (more story)

The UK is set to announce Monday new online safety measures that could include a ban on social media use by under-16s, following a consultation that drew more than 116,000 responses. Ahead of the announcement,... (more story)

Healthcare patients cannot prove without individualized inquiries into millions of people that hospitals sent their private health information to Meta Platforms through Meta's tracking tools, lawyers for the c... (more story)

The Washington Post has been hit with a lawsuit in a state court in the US for allegedly using readers’ personal data to decide how much to charge them for a subscription and charging a higher price to those l... (more story)

EU lawmakers are proposing to strengthen privacy protections while rolling back measures designed to smooth out GDPR compliance, according to a draft report on the Digital Omnibus, seen by MLex. The civil libe... (more story)

Google has filed its first lawsuit over misuse of its Gemini AI products, targeting the China-based “Outsider” phishing enterprise, which allegedly enabled criminals to launch AI-generated phishing campaigns f... (more story)

China’s internet platforms face new expectations to police business-related content under a self-regulatory agreement released by the Cyberspace Administration of China, which requires platforms to remove fals... (more story)