Laws and regulations

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2025
NSO Group must pay WhatsApp over $167M in damages for attacks on its users

NSO Group must pay WhatsApp over $167M in damages for a 2019 hack targeting 1,400+ users, per U.S. jury ruling after a five-year legal battle. A U.S. jury ordered NSO Group to pay WhatsApp over $167M for using Pegasus spyware to target over 1,400 people, violating U.S. laws. After a five-year legal battle, a jury […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2025
Ireland’s DPC fined TikTok €530M for sending EU user data to China

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined TikTok €530M for violating data rules by sending European user data to China. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined the popular video-sharing platform TikTok €530 million for violating data laws by transferring data belonging to European users to China. TikTok violated GDPR by transferring EEA user data to China […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2025
Indian Court ordered to block email service Proton Mail

Indian Court ordered a nationwide block of the privacy-oriented email service Proton Mail on April 29, 2025, following a legal complaint. Proton Mail is a Swiss-based email service offering end-to-end encryption to ensure that only the sender and recipient can read the messages. Founded in 2013 by scientists from CERN, it operates under Proton AG […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2025
France’s antitrust authority fines Apple €150M for issues related to its App Tracking Transparency

France fines Apple €150M for abusing its dominance in ATT consent practices on iOS and iPadOS from 2021 to 2023. France’s Autorité de la concurrence fined Apple €150M for abusing its dominance in App Tracking Transparency (ATT) consent practices on iOS and iPadOS between April 26, 2021 and July 25, 2023. Apple launched ATT with […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2025
U.S. Treasury removed sanctions against the crypto mixer service Tornado Cash

The U.S. Treasury is lifting sanctions on Tornado Cash, a crypto mixer accused of helping North Korea’s Lazarus Group launder illicit funds. The U.S. Treasury Department removed sanctions against the cryptocurrency mixer service Tornado Cash. In August 2022, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the crypto mixer service Tornado Cash used by […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 11, 2025
Switzerland’s NCSC requires cyberattack reporting for critical infrastructure within 24 hours

Switzerland’s NCSC mandates critical infrastructure organizations to report cyberattacks within 24 hours of discovery. Switzerland’s National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) now requires critical infrastructure organizations to report cyberattacks within 24 hours due to rising cybersecurity threats. The new policy related to security breach notification is introduced as a response to the increasing number of cyber incident. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2025
International law enforcement operation seized the domain of the Russian crypto exchange Garantex

The U.S. Secret Service and global law enforcement seized the domain of sanctioned Russian crypto exchange Garantex. An international law enforcement operation led by U.S. Secret Service seized the website (“garantex[.]org”) of the sanctioned Russian crypto exchange Garantex. In April 2022, the US Treasury Department sanctioned the virtual currency exchange. Garantex has been active since 2019, […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 22, 2025
Apple removes iCloud encryption in UK following backdoor demand

Apple removed iCloud’s Advanced Data Protection in the UK after the government requested encryption backdoor access. Apple ends iCloud end-to-end encryption in the United Kingdom following the government’s request for encryption backdoor access. Advanced Data Protection is now unavailable for new UK users. In 2022, the IT giant introduced the optional setting Advanced Data Protection (ADP) […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2025
UK Gov demands backdoor to access Apple iCloud backups worldwide

UK secretly demands Apple create an iCloud backdoor via a Technical Capability Notice, raising privacy concerns over end-to-end encryption. The UK demands Apple to create a backdoor to access any iCloud backups, the request raises concerns about user privacy and undermines Apple’s security commitments. “The British government’s undisclosed order, issued last month, requires blanket capability […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2025
Texas is the first state to ban DeepSeek on government devices

Texas bans DeepSeek and RedNote on government devices to block Chinese data-harvesting AI, citing security risks. Texas Governor Greg Abbott banned Chinese AI company DeepSeek and Chinese-owned social media apps Xiaohongshu (RedNote) and Lemon8 from all state-issued devices. The AI-powered chatbot, recently launched globally, has rapidly gained popularity reaching millions of users. Texas is the […]

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