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The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined Uber €825 million for suspending driver accounts through automated systems without proper human oversight, marking Europe's second-largest GDPR penalty.
Apple's Private Relay privacy feature, designed to protect user IP addresses, contains critical flaws that expose real IP addresses through WebKit browser engine vulnerabilities discovered by security researchers.
WhatsApp is testing age verification in India, its largest market with 600 million users, to comply with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act. The feature remains optional while Meta faces heightened regulatory scrutiny.
The US Federal Trade Commission is pursuing legal action against telehealth platform Hims & Hers, alleging the company improperly shared users' sensitive health data with advertising firms Meta and Snap while engaging in deceptive billing and subscription cancellation practices.
A British Labour MP is pursuing legal action against Elon Musk's xAI, demanding the company implement technical safeguards to prevent its Grok chatbot from generating non-consensual sexualised images of her.
Tests reveal that popular chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini can accurately infer intimate details about users—from age and wealth to personality traits and health concerns—without being explicitly told, raising urgent privacy questions.
Malaysia's data protection regulator is investigating an unauthorised disclosure of Maxis customer information involving a prominent social media personality, as the telco confirms identifying the individual responsible.
Malaysia's data protection regulator is investigating an alleged leak of customer account details by telecommunications company Maxis, following public disclosure of a content creator's billing information on social media.
Malaysia's digital adoption has reached saturation with 98% of respondents regularly using online services, yet cybersecurity anxieties mount as AI-driven attacks and quantum computing threats reshape the threat landscape.
Following significant privacy concerns raised by software developers, SpaceX's Grok AI coding assistant has committed to major transparency reforms, including open-sourcing its command-line interface and deleting previously retained user code.