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Italy's DPA has announced it will thoroughly investigate whether user data on TikTok can be accessed by the Chinese government

After news of the first high-profile data breach of ChatGPT was announced, Italy's DPA moved to ban the AI and Canada has announced it will investigate the chatbot.

Turkey's KVKK hit TikTok with a substantial fine for insufficient data protections, again fueling the flame of concern over TikTok's data privacy.

After years of deliberation, the EU and US finally have a draft adequacy decision in place for free data flows between the nations.

Twitter’s security, privacy and compliance leaders left the company less than two weeks after its acquisition by Elon Musk. Twitter Chief Information Security Officer Lea Kissner, Chief Privacy Officer Damien Kieran and Chief Compliance Officer Marianne Fogarty reportedly tendered their resignations Nov. 9 via company's internal messaging platform. The departures raise regulatory questions, specifically related to who is tracking activity on the platform and making sure Twitter is reporting information and remaining compliant with existing frameworks. “We are tracking recent developments at Twitter with deep concern,” a spokesperson from the FTC said in a statement provided to TechCrunch.

In October, 2021, Apple announced an update to Section 5.1.1 of the App Store Review guidelines, requiring any app on the App Store that allows account creation to likewise provide a pathway for users to delete their accounts from within the app by June 30, 2022. Below are the requirements for Account Deletion within apps...