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Republican lawmakers are attempting to ban the use of a Chinese-owned tutoring company by U.S. military service members and their families.

Sen. Tim Scott wrote to the Biden administration on Friday, blasting them for their alleged “flagrant violation” of Americans’ privacy.

House Judiciary Committee leaders sent letters to several financial institutions on Monday, demanding to know what degree they worked with the FBI to collect Americans’ private data. 

The House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan requesting documents and communications surrounding the bank’s decision to provide the FBI with their customers’ private banking info “voluntarily and without any legal process.”

Facebook owner Meta was slapped with a record €1.2 billion by EU regulators on Monday over transfers of European data to the United States.

Italy’s data protection agency announced AI bot ChatGPT will be blocked from the country until it complies with data privacy rules.

The Biden administration is reportedly worried a 2008 spy law permitting warrantless wiretaps will not be renewed by Congress, as lawmakers on both the left and right have expressed privacy concerns.

The Dutch government has reportedly told public authorities to refrain from using Chinese social media platform TikTok over data security fears.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Making Money,” Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) said that what TikTok does with data “isn’t entirely different than what the Twitter files are saying was going on with the United States government.” Davidson

Critics have slammed a new European Commission plan to monitor private communications online in the name of protecting children from abuse.

The European Union is aiming to set up a medical super-database containing the medical information of citizens from across the multinational bloc.

Weibo, a Chinese microblogging platform, announced on Thursday plans to publish the IP addresses of all Weibo users both on their individual account pages and whenever they post comments, stating it was part of an effort to prevent “bad behavior” online, Reuters reported.

Liu Jiacheng, a member of China’s National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), recently submitted a proposal to the body suggesting Beijing help fight human trafficking by establishing a “nationwide DNA database for kindergartens and primary schools as soon as possible,” the Global Times reported Sunday.

Yahoo, Inc. announced on Tuesday it has withdrawn its services from China, effective immediately – in fact, effective the previous day, November 1.

Security breaches in the EU’s vaccine passport system has resulted in health passes being granted to Spongebob, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.

UK spy agencies have inked a billion-dollar deal with Amazon to host classified information on the tech giant’s cloud computing apparatus.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s personal vaccine passport QR code has been leaked, raising privacy concerns about the system.

The NHS has admitted that it is sharing facial recognition with police from the NHS app, which has been used as a vaccine passport

Health regulators across five countries are currently investigating a prenatal test owned by the Chinese company BGI for possible violations of local data privacy laws, including allegedly sharing women’s genetic information with the Chinese military for unknown research purposes, Reuters reported Monday.

The Health Ministry of Indonesia said on Tuesday it was investigating an alleged security breach of its Chinese coronavirus contact tracing app that potentially exposed the personal identification information of more than 1.3 million users.

Britain’s NHS reportedly falsified up to 700,000 vaccine passport records since the beginning of the controversial programme.

Transgender activists in Italy have objected to the Wuhan coronavirus “Green Pass”, claiming it would reveal information on their gender.

Apple and Google have blocked an update to the UK government’s coronavirus tracing app as it violated their privacy rules.

The European Commission unveiled its proposal for a coronavirus vaccine passport scheme on Wednesday, with the hopes of opening up travel within the bloc by the summer.

The CEO of an American data privacy firm said that it will be impossible for governments to keep personal health data private when they introduce coronavirus vaccine passports and that such a system could lead to “algorithmic discrimination”. In an

Singapore police used coronavirus contact tracing data from the government’s TraceTogether app to investigate a murder case sometime in the past several months, Singaporean government ministers admitted on Tuesday, according to the South China Morning Post.

Internal documents from the European Union Council reveal that the bloc is seeking to ban end-to-end encryption on messaging services such as WhatsApp and Signal, following the recent Islamic terror attacks in France and Austria. A draft Council of the

Experts have warned of a “privacy crisis” in the United Kingdom as contact tracing data collected in pubs and restaurants is reportedly being sold on to third parties for advertising and other purposes.

The people of Great Britain will be told that to accelerate the end of the lockdown, millions will need to download a contact tracing app which raises concerns that the government will use the Chinese coronavirus crisis to usher in a massive surveillance state.

The British government has announced that it will adopt a centralised approach to its planned contract tracing app, meaning that user data will be stored in government servers, sparking fears that the program could infringe upon privacy rights. On Tuesday,

Nintendo UK has advised users to activate a two-step authentication on their accounts after 160,000 users were reportedly compromised in early April.

Major U.S. retailers including Walmart and Home Depot are reportedly planning to comply with California’s new data privacy law that requires companies to disclose to consumers how they collect and share personal information. Retailers plan to give consumers a “do not sell my info” option.

In a display of unapologetic defiance, Silicon Valley giants including Facebook and Uber are planning to ignore new California laws scheduled to take effect in 2020, laying the groundwork for a collision course between the tech giants and state lawmakers.

Google has reportedly handed over 1,500 private phone locations to the federal government as part of a “geofencing” request tied to a criminal arson investigation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is facing accusations that it violated child privacy laws and improperly collected data on young users, according to a new lawsuit.

The FBI applied for a search warrant to compel Sony to share private data on a Playstation 4 user who was allegedly brokering cocaine distribution deals using the Playstation’s in-game chat functionality, according to a new report.