Silicon Valley’s main data-protection watchdog in Europe came under attack from one of the region’s leading privacy advocates for taking too long to wrap up probes into Facebook Inc. and its Instagram and WhatsApp units.

Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc.’s WhatsApp are in the firing line as Europe’s leading privacy watchdog for U.S. tech giants edges closer to delivering its first major sanctions under the region’s tough data-protection rules.

Ukraine medical professionals can access consumers’ personal information without permission if needed to stop the spread of Covid-19, the nation’s government announced Friday in easing privacy restrictions.

Looming European Union privacy sanctions against Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc.'s WhatsApp signal that regulators are poised to step up enforcement of the bloc’s sweeping two-year-old data privacy law.

Gilead Sciences Inc. has been accused of revealing private information about people taking its medications to prevent HIV, in a lawsuit filed in a California federal court.

With online shopping increasing amid Covid-19 lockdowns, the U.K.’s competition regulator is clamping down on fake and misleading reviews on popular shopping websites.