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In this week’s Global News Roundup, South Korea’s data protection authority fined Meta for reportedly requiring customers to give up personal information to use certain platforms. Italy’s data protection authority, the Garante, banned U.S.-based artificial intelligence chatbot company Replika from processing Italian citizens’ personal data. Compromise amendments for the draft EU AI Act were introduced in European Parliament. And several U.S. states advanced various pieces of privacy legislation.

European Parliament's Industry, Research and Energy Committee adopted the draft Data Act. The proposal includes measures to allow users to access their data and defines how public sector bodies can access and use private sector data. "The Data Act will be an absolute game changer providing access to an almost infinite amount of high-quality industrial data. Competitiveness and innovation are part of its DNA," Member of European Parliament Pilar del Castillo Vera said.

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Judge Vince Chhabria ordered Meta Platforms and its law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher to pay $925,000 over their "delay, misdirection and frivolous arguments" in a data privacy lawsuit, Reuters reports.

The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority announced it would continue an initiative to provide synthetic data sets “to help increase innovation and choice in financial services,” Reuters reports.