On September 2, 2021, EU regulators fined Facebook-owned chat service, WhatsApp, £225 million (around $266 million) for failing to fully disclose its user data collection and sharing practices. This is the second largest fine...more
After “claims made in an online forum that a bad actor had compromised T-Mobile systems,” the company began investigating the data breach, according to a press release issued on August 17, 2021. The breach compromised more...more
On November 1, 2021, China’s new GDPR-like data privacy law goes into effect. With far-reaching scope and harsh penalties for noncompliance, the Personal Information Protection Law is expected to greatly curb data collection...more
On July 4, 2021, less than a week after ride-hailing giant Didi’s U.S. IPO, Chinese regulators ordered Didi removed from app stores in the country. The purported reason—China’s Cyberspace Administration’s concerns over the...more