California has secured its largest settlement yet under the California Consumer Privacy Act, with Attorney General Rob Bonta announcing that The Walt Disney Company will pay $2.75 million to resolve allegations that it failed to fully honor consumers’ requests to opt out of the sale or sharing of their personal information.
Poland’s competition and consumer protection authority has launched proceedings against HBO Europe, alleging that the streaming provider may have infringed the collective interests of consumers by unilaterally restricting access to its service on certain devices while subscriptions remained active.
The International Organization for Standardization has now published ISO 14092:2026, a new International Standard focused specifically on climate change adaptation planning for local governments and communities. The standard replaces ISO/TS 14092:2020, upgrading what had been a Technical Specification into a full International Standard and incorporating technical revisions.
When the Digital Services Act entered into force two years ago, it was framed as a reset for the online economy. The rhetoric focused on safer digital spaces, stronger protections for fundamental rights, and curbing manipulative or harmful platform behavior.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has opened a formal inquiry into X and the Irish entity responsible for the X platform in the EU, over concerns that generative artificial intelligence tools linked to the platform may have been used to create and publish non-consensual intimate images.
The first year of sustainability assurance under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive is now in the books in the Netherlands, and the country’s financial regulator says audit firms have made real strides, but the work is far from over.
For nearly four years, motorists pulling into nine Mobil-branded petrol stations across north and central Queensland were told they were filling up with “Mobil Synergy Fuel”, a product marketed as containing additives designed to protect engines and improve performance. They weren’t. Recently, an Australian Federal Court ordered Mobil Oil Australia to pay $10.4 million (AUD 16 million) in penalties after finding the company had made false or misleading representations about the fuel sold at those sites, in breach of the Australian Consumer Law.