The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has funds to continue operating until 20 Oct. if the U.S. government fails to avoid a shutdown by 30 Sept., Bloomberg reports. After that, the agency would furlough staff, pause active litigation and its work could slow, including rulemaking on commercial surveillan...

Kenya's Office of the Data Privacy Commissioner announced three penalties totaling KES9,375,000 for alleged violations of the Data Protection Act. Each penalty concerns claims of nonconsensual uses of personal data. The largest fine was KES4,550,000 to Roma School for posting pictures of minors with...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission extended its deadline to consider the Entertainment Software Rating Board's application to use "Privacy-Protective Facial Age Estimation" technology. The commission extended its original 2 Oct. deadline by 120 days after receiving more than 350 comments. ESRB, Yoti ...

Denmark's data protection authority, Datatilsynet, published the details of an enforcement sweep covering the data breach handling of municipalities and banks. The regulator carried out 16 inspections and sought to ensure EU General Data Protection Regulation rules for data breach reporting was bein...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved amendments to its Privacy Act regulations. The regulator said the final rule "clarifies, updates, and streamlines" regulations while allowing for "electronic methods to verify one's identity and submit Privacy Act requests." The SEC regulations we...