Australia’s AG unveils plans for tougher online privacy laws after several major data breaches, including increasing fines from AU$2.22M to AU$50M or more (Daryna Antoniuk/The Record)

Reuters:
South Korea’s privacy regulator fines Google $50M and Meta $22M for failing to obtain users’ consent when collecting behavioral information to show custom ads  —  South Korea levied fines running into millions of dollars on Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google and Meta Platforms (META.O) …

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Florida’s attorney general asks the US Supreme Court whether the First Amendment prohibits states from regulating how social media companies moderate content  —  The state attorney general filed a petition to the Court on Wednesday, after two lower courts split on decisions about social media laws

Reuters:
The Mexican attorney general’s office says it is investigating a ~$23M purchase of Pegasus by the prior administration and whether the NSO sold it legally  —  The Mexican attorney general’s office said on Sunday it is investigating the purchase of Pegasus computer spyware by the previous administration …

CNBC:
Bahamas AG Ryan Pinder and US SDNY Attorney Damian Williams confirm Bahamas police arrested Sam Bankman-Fried, who is under indictment and could be extradited  —  – The cofounder and former CEO of bankrupt crypto trading firm FTX was arrested in the Bahamas after the U.S. attorney …

Wall Street Journal:
New York AG Letitia James asks Madison Square Garden Entertainment for information on the alleged use of facial recognition to deny access to ticket holders  —  Probe related to company’s alleged use of the technology to bar certain ticket holders from its venues

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk:
The US DOJ seizes 50,676 bitcoin, worth around ~$1B, defrauded from the Silk Road in 2012 by James Zhong, who pled guilty to wire fraud  —  50,000 bitcoin was obtained unlawfully in relation to the Silk Road marketplace in 2012.  —  Damian Williams, the United States Attorney …