Do-It-Yourself retail chain Bauhaus has won approval from Germany's competition authority to acquire eight DIY stores from insolvent rival Hellweg. The watchdog found no competition concerns, ...

The European Commission is inviting feedback on its EU Kids Act proposal, which would set new rules for online services used by children. Comments submitted by Nov. 26 will be published and summarized ...

South Korea has expanded the Chief AI Officer Consultative Council from 28 to 42 central government bodies, extending coordination of artificial intelligence issues beyond ministries to ...

OpenAI’s planned use of ChatGPT conversations to facilitate targeted advertising in Europe poses substantial privacy risks, Hamburg’s data protection commissioner said on Friday. The watchdog said the ...

South Korea's Shinhan Bank and KB Kookmin Bank reported data breaches affecting a combined 25,119 customers following illegal access by external parties to internal systems, triggering on-site ...

Left-wing members of France's Assemblée Nationale have written to the prime minister to express concerns over the planned space joint venture between Airbus, Thales and Leonardo, MLex has learned.

China is barring companies with monopolistic violations from its green-manufacturing certification program. The move represents a rare convergence of Beijing's environmental and competition policies, ...

Three publicly listed regional banking groups in northern Japan — Akita Bank, the Bank of Iwate and Procrea Holdings, the parent of Aomori Michinoku Bank— said Friday they had agreed to begin ...

Australia’s online-safety watchdog has urged Roblox, Mojang Studios, Epic Games and Valve to strengthen child protections after finding gaps in age checks, harmful-content detection and information ...

A planned joint trial of the class action over Medibank’s 2022 data breach and the Australian privacy regulator’s enforcement case could be reconsidered after proposed amendments to the class-action ...

South Korea's privacy regulator is promising companies swifter and more predictable breach investigations, along with a clearer picture of how their fines are calculated, at a time when the penalties ...

Japanese companies should understand the essence of data protection law and assess the risks of their own use of personal data, rather than treat the law as a compliance checklist, a senior privacy ...