Meta to settle $725 million Law Suit
Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle class-action claims that it violated users' privacy by sharing their information with outside developers, including Cambridge Analytica. The deal provides for…
Google Penalized by France Regulators Over Cookies
Google has been fined by French data privacy watchdog regulators over cookies handling France's Commission Nationale de Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) - the country's regulatory body in charge of…
Meta fined again by Irish Data Protection Regulators
The Irish subsidiary of Facebook owner Meta Platforms has been fined €265 million today by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission for breaching the EU GDPR. The commission launched an investigation in…
Key changes to RTI in Revised Indian Data Protection Bill
The Indian government has proposed amending the Right To Information (RTI) Act to protect individual privacy by denying any personal information through an amendment in the proposed data protection law.…
Optus Breach Aftermath
Australia will make stringent privacy rules to allow banks to be informed of data breaches in the corporate world, following a huge leak of personal information from the country’s second-biggest…
VPN Providers mulling to withdraw from India over Data Privacy.
The deadline to comply with Indian government’s new data-collection rules fastly approaching, many VPN companies from across the globe have pulled their servers out of the country in a bid to…
South Korea fines Google and Meta over Privacy
South Korea levied tens of millions of dollars in fines on Alphabet's Google and Meta Platforms for privacy law violations. The Personal Information Protection Commission said it fined Google 69.2…
US FTC Sues Kochava analytics over Privacy
The Federal Trade Commission is suing to stop an analytics company (Idaho-based company called Kochava) from selling geo-location data on over 125 million consumers, including where they live and if…