Australia's lead data privacy regulator is suing telecommunications giant Optus over the massive 2022 data breach that caused chaos for over a third of the national population, for an as-yet undisclosed sum.
The coalition suggests that if privacy regulators sign off on Meta’s ad-free scheme, it will immediately be adopted by every other service that monetizes via personalized advertising. That could undo a great deal of the work GDPR decisions have done.
French data regulator CNIL has hit tech giants Google and Amazon with some heavy penalties for placing non-essential tracking cookies. Google will pay €100 million and Amazon will pay €35 million.
It's fair to say that TikTok is having an even rougher 2020 than most companies with French privacy regulator CNIL opening a probe into parent company ByteDance's operations.
EU’s lead privacy regulator, Irish DPC, is announcing their GDPR decision if Twitter is in violation of article 33 after more than one year of investigation on the data breach incidents.
