IT Security & Privacy

The EU wants to make life a little easier for smaller businesses under the GDPR, but Europe's top data protection authorities are asking a few questions before they sign off.

TikTok is once again in the crosshairs of Ireland’s privacy watchdog after it admitted to storing some European user data on servers in China, contradicting what it had previously told regulators.

Qantas is investigating a cyber incident that exposed the personal information of customers stored on a third-party platform used by one of its contact centres. The breach, first detected earlier this week, has affected records tied to up to 6 million customers.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and SolarWinds Corp. have reached a tentative agreement to settle the high-profile lawsuit stemming from the Russia-linked Sunburst cyberattack, Reuters first reported Wednesday.

Sweden’s privacy regulator had a busy week, slapping some of the country’s most recognizable public and private names with fines over mishandling personal data, ranging from intimate health purchases to employees’ sobriety test results.

South Korea’s privacy watchdog has handed financial penalties to the Korea Accreditation Board (KAB) and Telus International AI for failing to put in place basic safeguards to protect personal data, following significant breaches tied to long-known security vulnerabilities.

Tech companies love to talk about safety, but Ofcom isn’t buying the press releases. On Monday, the UK’s media and communications regulator released a fresh batch of proposals under the Online Safety Act, this time urging platforms to stop turning a blind eye to how fast harm can spread and who it hurts most.