International Privacy News – December 2025

05.01.2026

Zusammenfassung

This is a summary of data privacy-related news from around the world that we published on LinkedIn in December 2025.

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December closed the year with renewed focus on children’s privacy, age assurance, and the growing tension between digital safety goals and surveillance risks. Regulators in Europe and the UK intensified scrutiny of platforms and games that process children’s data, while policy debates in the U.S. and India spotlighted the privacy implications of “always-on” verification and location tracking. Meanwhile, new research continued to underline how quickly AI is reshaping the modern economy. Below, we summarize the key international privacy stories from December 2025 that we posted on LinkedIn.

en_us Pinterest Backs U.S. App Store Accountability Act (December 11, 2025)
Pinterest joined Meta in supporting the U.S. App Store Accountability Act, which would shift responsibility for privacy-preserving age checks and parental approval for children’s app downloads to app stores.
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hi_in India Weighs Always-On Satellite Phone Tracking (December 9, 2025)
India is considering mandatory “always-on” satellite-based location tracking for smartphones, despite pushback from Apple, Google, and Samsung over the privacy risks of expanded location surveillance.
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en_us MIT Study: AI Could Replace 11.7% of U.S. Wages (December 3, 2025)
A new MIT study finds that today’s AI systems could technically automate work representing about 11.7% of U.S. wages – highlighting significant economic exposure even before widespread adoption.
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ga_ie Ireland Opens DSA Probes into TikTok and LinkedIn (December 2, 2025)
Ireland launched Digital Services Act investigations into TikTok and LinkedIn over alleged shortcomings in their tools for reporting illegal content, raising questions about usability, accountability, and platform governance.
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en_gb UK ICO Probes Mobile Games and Children’s Data (December 1, 2025)
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office is investigating mobile games over how they process children’s personal data, warning developers to comply with the Children’s Code and avoid exploitative data practices.
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Über den Autor – Marvin Stellmacher

Herr Stellmacher ist zertifizierter Datenschutzbeauftragte (udis), zertifizierter IT-Sicherheitsbeauftragter (udis) und verfügt über eine abgeschlossene Berufsausbildung zum Rechtsanwaltsfachangestellten. Mit seiner beruflichen Erfahrung im Vertrieb von Legal-Tech Software verantwortet Herr Stellmacher bei der IITR Datenschutz GmbH Aufgaben in Vertrieb und Kundenbetreuung.

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