The Philippines' National Privacy Commission published guidance for online learning, addressing student privacy and the prevention of school data breaches. In the announcement for the guidelines, Privacy Commissioner Raymund Liboro said schools must select a virtual learning platform with "the best ...

Colombia's data protection authority, the Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio, announced Banco Popular was fined 269,046,492 pesos for violating the right to deletion under the Personal Data Protection Law. Following an investigation, the DPA concluded the bank took more than 10 months to delet...

Brazil's Public Ministry of the Federal District and Territories filed the first lawsuit for alleged violations of the country's General Data Protection Law. The lawsuit was filed against a computer company based in the city of Belo Horizonte alleging it illegally sold the personal information of 50...

Desires to streamline online activities are at an all-time high. The oft-discussed method of data portability brings that simplification, but the challenges of doing it properly and safely remain difficult. Concerns about privacy and security were among the topics covered by panels at the U.S. Feder...

New York–based nonprofit The Markup rolled out Blacklight, a real-time tool to inspect a website's privacy practices. Users can enter the web address for any website, and Blacklight will reveal the specific tracking technologies, data sharing and surveillance efforts the site is using on its users. ...