Reuters reports Toyota informed Asia-Pacific customers their data may be subject to data leaks after its database was discovered to be left open for more than six years. Customer names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and vehicle identification and registration numbers were all accessible ...

Brazil's National Data Protection Authority announced it opened investigations into Meta's WhatsApp and TikTok. It noted the WhatsApp investigation involves "verification of compliance with the processing of personal data" regarding the platform's sharing of data with its parent company. The scope o...

The Netherlands' data protection authority, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, claimed it was made aware of a potential data breach of Tesla, Reuters reports. A German publication claimed to have received 100 gigabytes of confidential data from a whistleblower, indicating lax data practices on the part of...

Brazil's data protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, published a statement to standardize the General Data Protection Law's interpretation of processing data of children and teens. It notes data processing can be conducted "based on the legal hypotheses provided for in t...

Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School professor Luca Belli wrote for Medianama, outlining ChatGPT's perceived noncompliance with Brazil's General Data Protection Law and why he filed a complaint to Brazil's data protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados. OpenAI CEO Sam Altma...