California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a USD93 million settlement over claims against Google's location privacy practices. The California Department of Justice determined Google deceived users by "collecting, storing, and using their location data for consumer profiling and advertising purp...

The Australian government's defunct Robodebt scheme brought serious questions about the processes behind automated data-matching and associated privacy practices of involved government agencies. Tattarang Privacy Officer and Privacy Counsel Francisco Ruiz Diaz opined the scheme is a case study for "...

Hong Kong's Cyberport reported a ransomware attack involving 400 gigabytes of personal information, The South China Morning Post reports. The data accessed includes bank account information and soft copies of ID cards belonging to staff, former workers and job applicants. The data is available for p...

Brazil's data protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, extended the deadline for its public consultation on the draft Regulation on International Transfers of Personal Data. The deadline to submit public comments was extended to 14 Oct.Full story...

Spain's data protection authority, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, blogged about data protection practices for digital currencies. The regulator said "privacy and data minimization must be guaranteed from the design" with any currency deployment and "an appropriate balance must be ensur...