Swiss public-sector data protection officers say controlling the geographic location of cloud data isn’t enough: governments must hold the encryption keys too. Data residency is no longer enough. As ...

Coupang’s massive data breach in South Korea has now become a geopolitical flashpoint as a growing number of the company’s U.S. investors take legal action against the South Korean government. What ...

The number of personal data compromises rose 5% last year — with 3,322 events in 2025 versus 3,152 in 2024 — a record, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center's new annual report. Even federal ...

Illinois residents are once again being reminded how fragile government data systems can be. The Illinois Department of Human Services has confirmed a data breach that exposed sensitive records ...

The immediate action taken by President Bola Tinubu in 2023 provided a bolster for Nigeria data protection and privacy ecosystem, The Nation gathered in Abuja on Monday. According to the authorities ...

Government agencies have gotten rid of gender identity and sexual orientation data elements from over 360 data collections over the last year. Data Governance White House HHS The federal government ...

Crap! As if we don’t already have a MILLION things to deal with, now this. 🙁 A stunning whistleblower complaint is raising alarms nationwide. A former Social Security Administration official alleges ...

A ransomware attack on government technology giant Conduent is turning out to be far bigger than first reported. What initially sounded like a limited incident now appears to affect tens of millions ...

Data centres and AI infrastructure sit at the heart of Australia’s digital ecosystems, and are becoming an essential feature ...

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Environmental Protection Agency announced earlier this month that it would stop ...