London's High Court of Justice Monday tossed a challenge by nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation to provisions of the U.K. Online Safety Act (OSA) it claimed could jeopardize the privacy and safety of Wikipedia contributors, but stressed that contributors must be protected.
Australian telco Optus could face fines of more than 21 trillion Australian dollars ($13.7 trillion) for a September 2022 data breach that compromised the privacy of nearly 10 million people, the Australian Information Commissioner (AIC) said Friday.
Asian AI developers looking to do business in the U.S., EU or U.K. face several key compliance challenges, Finnegan lawyers said Wednesday at the law firm's webinar.
The U.S. has set itself on a "fundamentally divergent path" from the EU by focusing on deregulation and national security in the new White House AI Action Plan (see 2507230058), Pinsent Mason AI and intellectual property attorney Cerys Wyn Davies blogged Thursday.
Age-verification vendors weren't "surprised" by attempts to circumvent proof-of-age mechanisms once the U.K. Online Safety Act (OSA) rules took effect Friday, Age Verification Providers Association Executive Director Iain Corby told us Tuesday.
Indonesia agreed to grant the U.S. "adequacy" for personal data transfers under a trade deal the White House announced Tuesday, but it's unclear when the decision will take effect, IAPP Global Privacy Policy Manager Luis Montezuma told us Wednesday.
With substantive data-protection provisions of the U.K. Data Use (and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA) beginning to apply near year's end, organizations should start monitoring new guidance from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), Robin Edwards, a member of the government's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, said Wednesday during an IAPP webinar.
Wikipedia's operator will argue in London's High Court of Justice this week that upcoming provisions of the U.K. Online Safety Act (OSA) could classify the site incorrectly and hence threaten the privacy of those Wikipedia contributors who choose to remain anonymous.
Ireland's first mass-litigation case could have major implications for tech companies that process data under the General Data Protection Regulation, Pinsent Masons commercial litigation attorney Zara West blogged Thursday.
With rules governing general-purpose AI under the EU AI Act becoming effective Aug. 2 and enforceable for new models one year later, the European Commission on Thursday unveiled a code of practice aimed at helping industry comply with the act's GPAI provisions.