Korea's AI Law Has Been In Force Seven Months. The Maximum Fine Is About US$20,000.
The AI Basic Act and its Enforcement Decree took effect on 22 January. Penalties cap at ₩30m, are suspended for a year e...
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An Extortion Group Claimed 25 Million Records. 218,000 Appeared.
ShinyHunters listed Alcon on 2 August alleging more than 25 million Salesforce records. The data later published held 21...
Germany Made Apple Redesign The Tracking Prompt It Wrote For Rivals
The Bundeskartellamt closed a four-year case after Apple agreed to align its own consent prompts with the ones third-par...
A Data Broker Wanted Your SSN Before It Would Stop Selling Your Data
California fined LocateSmarter US$116,490 for demanding unnecessary personal information to process an opt-out. The fine...
Meta Is On Trial In Oakland, And The Children's Data Claim Is The One That Travels
Twenty-nine states, an advisory jury and a theoretical US$1.4 trillion. The design-harm allegations will lead the covera...
SafePal Lost 39,798 Customer Records, And The Shipping Address Is The Dangerous Field
No seed phrases, no keys, no funds — the breach came through a third-party order-tracking plugin. What leaked was a filt...
OpenAI Will Put You in ChatGPT for Teens Without Asking
A separate experience for 13 to 17 year olds launched on 18 August, and an age-prediction system routes suspected under-...
Microsoft Merges Work and Personal Copilot Into One App Today
Two identity contexts now live behind a single icon, with the data boundary maintained by an account indicator. Three fe...
France Cut Off the Intruder in June. Taxpayers Found Out in August.
The DGFiP stopped an intruder in late June and said nothing until 14 August, two days after the stolen data was advertis...
Signal Will Now Check You Are Talking to the Right Person. Read What It Cannot Check.
Automatic key verification replaces sixty digits with one tap, audited by Cloudflare and Trail of Bits. It proves the ke...
Claude Now Watermarks Its Text. Here Is Who Else Does, and How to Read Any of It.
What Claude marks and since when, what C2PA and Article 50 actually require, what Vietnam and Singapore demand, and whic...
A Judge Called Meta a Public Nuisance. He Left the Algorithm Alone.
New Mexico won $567 million and an injunction over teen safety. The court declined to touch the recommendation system, s...
Two Scripts Load on This Site Before You Consent. We Authorised One.
Yesterday we asked whether anyone knows what their own trackers do. We ran the audit on ourselves: 31 first-party reques...
Section 230 Is a Defence, Not a Shield From Being Sued, the Ninth Circuit Says
Meta, TikTok, Snap and Google must face more than 3,000 consolidated addiction lawsuits. The court did not reject Sectio...
Anthropic Will Watermark Claude's Text. Nobody Can Check It Yet.
Under Article 50 of the EU AI Act, Claude will embed watermarks in text and sign generated files to the C2PA standard, w...
Malaysia Asked Google to Remove 46 Things in Six Months. Three Years Later It Asked for 27,484
We read every ASEAN row in Google's government-removals dataset. Speech-based demands are falling in the countries that...
Singapore's Privacy Regulator Has Not Published a Reasoned Decision Since May
We counted all 387 enforcement pages the PDPC publishes. Over the past two years, 58 of 70 outcomes were voluntary under...
Malaysia Told Firms an AI Cannot Decide Alone — In Guidance That Is Not Binding
Malaysia issued guidelines on automated decisions, impact assessments and privacy by design on 30 April. They are adviso...
Three US State Privacy Changes Take Effect on 1 July 2026 — and Connecticut Reaches Into AI Training
Three US state privacy changes take effect on 1 July 2026 — Connecticut's sweeping amendments to its Data Privacy Act (S...
GDPR at the 2026 Midpoint: The Real Signal Is Operational Security Enforcement
Mid-year 2026 stock-takes put cumulative GDPR fines at around €7 billion since 2018, but the headline total is skewed by...
ASEAN's DEFA: The Region's Bet to Harmonise Cross-Border Data Rules Heads Toward a 2026 Signing
ASEAN reached 'substantial conclusion' on its Digital Economy Framework Agreement in late 2025 and aims to sign it in 20...
From 19 June, UK Data Controllers Need a Formal Complaints Process — and Cookie Fines Now Reach £17.5M
The last major piece of the UK's Data (Use and Access) Act takes effect on 19 June 2026: organisations acting as data co...
The EU Is Racing to Delay Its Own High-Risk AI Rules Before They Take Effect on 2 August
EU lawmakers reached a provisional deal in May to push the AI Act's high-risk obligations back from 2 August 2026 to Dec...
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