Brazil's Chamber of Deputies announced the introduction of Bill 4695/20, which seeks to protect students' privacy on remote-learning platforms. Proposed by Deputy Danilo Cabral, the bill requires learning platforms to abide by provisions of the General Data Protection Law while avoiding the collecti...

In a blog post, Twitter Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal and Data Protection Officer Damien Kieran wrote about the social media platform's efforts to boost user account protections. They explained updates to access management processes, authentication systems, and detection and monitoring capa...

The College of Nurses of Ontario is investigating whether the personal information of its 300 employees and 195,500 members was compromised in a ransomware attack, CBC News reports. The governing body for nurses said it discovered the hack Sept. 8, and a post on the dark web claims to have stolen da...

South Korea's Personal Information Privacy Committee published its guidelines for the anonymization and pseudonymization of personal data. The guidance explains the proper execution of both practices and how those types of data are to be processed. Included are suggested security measures, general p...

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 ...