Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's announcement Tuesday that the U.K. dropped its demand that Apple provide "backdoor" access to users' encrypted data brought cheers from the tech and privacy sectors.
Europeans seeking compensation for non-material damages such as emotional stress arising from data breaches shouldn't generally expect large sums, according to attorneys from William Fry and Austrian lawyer and privacy advocate Max Schrems.
Legislation significantly revamping Israel's data protection law took effect Thursday, but the country's privacy watchdog said it will delay enforcement of one of its provisions until October.
London's High Court of Justice Monday tossed a challenge by nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation to provisions of the U.K. Online Safety Act (OSA) it claimed could jeopardize the privacy and safety of Wikipedia contributors, but stressed that contributors must be protected.
Australian telco Optus could face fines of more than 21 trillion Australian dollars ($13.7 trillion) for a September 2022 data breach that compromised the privacy of nearly 10 million people, the Australian Information Commissioner (AIC) said Friday.
Asian AI developers looking to do business in the U.S., EU or U.K. face several key compliance challenges, Finnegan lawyers said Wednesday at the law firm's webinar.
The U.S. has set itself on a "fundamentally divergent path" from the EU by focusing on deregulation and national security in the new White House AI Action Plan (see 2507230058), Pinsent Mason AI and intellectual property attorney Cerys Wyn Davies blogged Thursday.
Age-verification vendors weren't "surprised" by attempts to circumvent proof-of-age mechanisms once the U.K. Online Safety Act (OSA) rules took effect Friday, Age Verification Providers Association Executive Director Iain Corby told us Tuesday.
Indonesia agreed to grant the U.S. "adequacy" for personal data transfers under a trade deal the White House announced Tuesday, but it's unclear when the decision will take effect, IAPP Global Privacy Policy Manager Luis Montezuma told us Wednesday.
With substantive data-protection provisions of the U.K. Data Use (and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA) beginning to apply near year's end, organizations should start monitoring new guidance from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), Robin Edwards, a member of the government's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, said Wednesday during an IAPP webinar.