The Chamber of Deputies of Brazil announced consideration of an amendment to the General Data Protection Law that would limit most processing activities involving national security data. The proposed bill is described as seeking to prohibit "the processing of data related to national security and de...

Forbes reports on a study finding digital health companies are sharing their users’ personal data with Facebook to better refine targeted advertising. The study followed users active in an online cancer support community using applications from five companies. Researchers found third-party ad tracke...

The European Parliament called for updating the EU Consumer Credits Directive, which would partially entail regulating artificial intelligence-based loan decision-making. MEPs said with “non-banks,” like crowd-sourcing loan applications having entered the loan market, it has made it easier for peopl...

Uruguay's data protection authority, the Unidad Reguladora y de Control de Datos Personales, marked the 14-year anniversary of the country's passage of the Access Law No. 18,331 on Data Protection. The law paved the way for the creation of the URCDP, which has held the exclusive enforcement authorit...

A school cafeteria technology services vendor agreed to pay $1.135 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit that alleged negligence, causing a data breach, Top Class Actions reports. A data breach of PCS Revenue Control Systems between May 2017 and December 2019 impacted nearly 870,000 people. In M...