In early 2023, the European Union’s top three institutions banned TikTok from staff devices. Governments from the United States to the United Kingdom - and countries across Europe - quickly followed ...

A physical concert ticket used to tell a pretty straightforward story: How much a person paid to see a particular band, on what night and in which seats. Today, a single barcode scan can give music… ...

The DPC has been taking action against multiple companies making AI models, due to concerns they are breaching GDPR when using personal data to train these machines. Ireland’s Data Protection ...

Simply sign up to the US & Canadian companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Germany’s competition authority has warned Facebook is collecting and transferring data in an “abusive” ...

South Korea on Friday asked China's AI supermodel DeepSeek to clarify its policy on personal data collection. In this regard, the Korean Personal Information Protection Commission is planning to send ...

It is a decade since Sir Tim Berners-Lee, my colleague and co-founder at the Open Data Institute, opened the London Olympics, saying of his invention – the World Wide Web – “This is for everyone.” In ...

If the current version of the internet is anything to go by, consumer data in the metaverse is going to be a complicated topic. The metaverse will pose an opportunity to deliver uncharted levels of ...

Ko Hak-soo, Chairperson of the Personal Information Protection Commission, said on the 19th, "If (personal) information is collected in an improper manner, criminal punishment is also possible," ...

Zalo's decision to enforce new terms of service regarding user data has drawn the attention of Vietnam’s competition ...

The Sri Lanka government has resurrected another stalled project of collecting personal data of the people for a digital database at grama niladhari divisional level in addition to similar initiatives ...