Data-protection is a topic tracked in our intelligence system with 5 linked articles.
Elkjøp was fined €1.8M for forced consent practices that regulators deemed unlawful, five years after the conduct.
A third-party UK visa portal leaked thousands of applicants’ passports and selfies online and has not fixed the leak, with the vendor opting for legal action instead of remediation.
Texas AG sues Meta over WhatsApp encryption claims; critics say the lawsuit lacks factual support.
EU age-verification push brands VPNs as a loophole, signaling upcoming tighter rules for VPN access across the EU/UK/US and potential compliance costs for providers and privacy trade-offs for users.
Mercor reportedly suffered a theft of 4TB of voice samples from 40,000 AI contractors.
Campaign alleges LinkedIn covertly scans users’ computers for installed extensions, shares that data with LinkedIn and third parties, and faces regulatory scrutiny under the EU DMA, backed by a stream of quantified claims about tools monitored and API usage.
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