Brazil's data protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, updated and released its list of ongoing probes into potential General Law for the Protection of Personal Data violations. The list publicizes company names, their industries, descriptions of alleged misconduct and sta...

A recent data breach of a third-party marketing vendor that exposed information of 9 million AT&T customers highlights the telecommunications sector's vulnerability to cyberattacks, Axios reports. Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 research lab Chief Technology Officer Michael Sikorski noted a major in...

Amendments to Japan's Telecommunications Business Act, including the External Data Transmission Rule, take force June 16. This new transmission rule will apply to certain businesses offering online services and may require companies to update existing policies or establish new ones. Mori Hamada &...

China is asserting more control over laying undersea internet cables in the South China Sea, Financial Times reports. Reportedly, China imposes a long permit approval process and some companies are avoiding the area altogether. One such project, SJC2, intended to connect Japan with Singapore, as wel...

Euractiv reports European Parliament's ePrivacy Regulation rapporteur Birgit Sippel called on the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union to give attention to the long-stalled proposal. In her letter to Swedish leadership calling for a meeting on the proposal, Sippel said "it seems c...