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A security researcher found that Paint and Photos transmit your prompt to Microsoft's servers even during local AI generation, embedding an invisible server-issued GUID in every image — with no user-facing toggle to disable it.
The Dutch Data Protection Authority hit Uber with an €825 million GDPR fine, ruling that the company deactivated driver accounts through automated decisions without adequate human review.
The DOJ announced TikTok will pay $400 million — one of the largest COPPA settlements in US history — to resolve allegations that the platform collected personal data from children under 13 without parental consent.
Twitch now lets streamers block Amazon from using their broadcasts to train generative AI — but the new control is opt-out, not opt-in, and the company's product chief admitted why.
A judge added $567 million to March's $375 million jury award, ruling that Meta's platforms constitute a public nuisance that harms children and spills beyond the app into the real world.
Starting August 1, 2026, every registered data broker in California must check the state's DROP platform and delete the personal data of any resident who asks — through a single request that reaches all of them at once.
The European Commission sent TikTok preliminary findings on July 24 concluding that default settings on minors' public accounts expose their content too broadly, in violation of the Digital Services Act — a finding that could lead to a fine of up to 6% of TikTok's global turnover.
A supply chain attack on Suno in November 2025 revealed the AI music startup scraped decades of audio from YouTube, Deezer, and Genius — and failed to notify customers whose data was also stolen.
A US federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action seeking $32.8 billion in damages that accused Apple of failing to prevent child sexual abuse material from circulating on iCloud, citing Section 230 protections in a major legal win for the company.
Samsung is demanding that Health app users agree to hand over medication records, medical diagnoses, and cycle tracking data to train its AI models — or face data deletion and loss of syncing.
The Los Angeles Police Department, the nation's third-largest police force, allowed its three-year contract with license-plate-reader company Flock Safety to lapse on July 13, citing unresolved privacy and civil rights issues — joining a growing list of cities cutting ties with the surveillance vendor.
A two-year European Commission investigation has preliminarily found that Meta violates the DSA through infinite scroll, autoplay, and personalized recommendations designed to drive compulsive use — findings that could trigger fines of up to 6% of Meta's global revenue, over $12 billion.