EU & UK
- European Parliament adopted new procedural rules related to EU General Data Protection Regulation enforcement.
- The EU Advocate General accused the German State Data Protection Commissioner of not taking action when a citizen’s personal data was accessed without consent.
- OpenAI, Google, and Mistral quickly updated their AI models following Meta’s announcement of the upcoming release of its Llama AI model.
- European Parliament extended CSAM detection rules until 2026.
AMERICAS
- US senator said TikTok could have more time to divest under the bill.
- A procedural vote in the U.S. House to advance legislation to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act failed.
- DuckDuckGo announced that it will launch a privacy tool that can ask websites to delete consumers’ personal data from “people-search websites”.
ASIA PACIFIC
- Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data released its investigative report on a cyberattack on Cyberport.
- The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand released draft rules on how biometric technologies can be used.