The European Consumer Organisation released a report highlighting policy recommendations for improved children's data protection and online safety. The BEUC recommended the EU adopt rules to prevent addictive social media features and surveillance advertisements targeted toward minors.
Iceland's data protection authority, the Persónuvernd, fined the Capital Region Health Service ISK5 million after determining it allegedly did not show it had a legal basis to merge its record systems with other parties under the Medical Records Act. Those other parties were able to access records outside their institution.Full story
Microsoft researchers claimed its Majorana 1 chip uses a new state of matter called a topological superconductor that can support high-powered quantum computers, The Wall Street Journal reports. Microsoft said the chip can be developed to support over a million quantum bits and could expand the field of quantum computing.Full story
The Trump administration's fast-moving efforts to limit the size of the U.S. federal bureaucracy, primarily through the recently minted Department of Government Efficiency, are raising privacy and data security concerns among current and former officials across the government, particularly as the administration scales back positions charged with privacy oversight.
For organizations to build an effective data protection program "it's essential for privacy and security teams to work in concert," Red Clover Advisors founder and CEO Jodi Daniels, CIPP/US, writes in an op-ed. Daniels discussed why it is key for privacy and security teams to align their priorities and offered recommendations for potential collaboration.Full story
The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office published its 2025 "Tech Horizons" report. The third edition of the report highlights four technologies that could "significantly affect society, the economy and information rights" over the ensuing several years.
Brazil's data protection authority, the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, reviewed the use of facial recognition technology by 23 professional soccer teams for ticket sales and stadium entry.
The social platform X will challenge the Berlin Regional Court's ruling to force the platform to provide researchers with user data under the EU's Digital Services Act, Euractiv reports. Researchers from Democracy Reporting International and Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte sent a request for user data regarding the upcoming German election, though X claimed the request for data access was insufficient.Full story
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s AI Governance Working Party and the Global Partnership on AI published a report exploring the intellectual property considerations for organizations collecting and using data to train AI models. The report examined how data scraping to train AI impacts different stakeholders in the AI ecosystem, such as content creators, research institutions and AI data aggregators.Full story
Latvia's Data State Inspectorate advised on how organizations can fix common issues within privacy notices to ensure consumers are aware of companies' standards. The DVI said organizations should develop notices that are transparent, accessible and provide "accurate and up-to-date information about the processing of personal data by a particular controller."Full story