The U.K. Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber dismissed the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office appeal of a lower court's decision to overturn an order requiring Experian to change how it handles customer data. The court found some flaws in the First-Tier Tribunal's reasoning but no lega...

The Czech Republic's data protection authority, Úřad pro ochranu osobních údajů, fined Avast Software CZK351 million for allegedly giving users' personal data to marketers without properly anonymizing it. The UOOU also claimed Avast misinformed users about how their data would be used.Full story...

The European Commission's voluntary cookie pledge did not garner anticipated interest among major technology companies, Euronews reports. According to a Commission spokesperson, most stakeholders thought signing onto the pledge was "premature" given the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act r...

U.S. President Joe Biden signed legislation within an omnibus foreign aid package that could ban TikTok if ByteDance does not sell the social media platform within nine months, The Washington Post reports. The legislative package also includes the Protecting Americans' Data from Foreign Adversaries ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is sending USD5.6 million worth of refunds to Ring camera customers who were affected by the company's alleged insufficient data security and nonconsensual data use for algorithm training. The FTC claimed the data security shortcomings allowed hackers to "take contr...