South Korea will shift its personal data protection regime toward prevention, requiring regular inspections from the second half of the year for about 1,700 high-risk systems handling large volumes of data. The Personal Information Protection Commission plans punitive fines of up to 10 percent of sales for repeated or serious violations and will tighten fine calculation standards. It will also expand supply-chain checks, institutionalise Privacy by Design, bolster public-sector staffing and budgets, and step up enforcement against illegal distribution of leaked sensitive data.

The U.S. Senate Banking Committee has released an amended version of the CLARITY crypto market structure bill reflecting stablecoin reward limits and protections for DeFi developers. The amendment does not include ethics provisions addressing potential conflicts of interest tied to President Donald Trump and his family’s crypto businesses, which Democrats say must be included. The bill must clear committee review and later be reconciled with a similar measure from the Senate Agriculture Committee.