The Federal Trade Commission ordered nine major companies to hand over data on how they use personal information to set prices for consumers and pay for gig workers, reviving a surveillance-pricing inquiry first opened under the Biden administration.
A Santa Fe judge found Facebook liable for more than 43 million privacy violations tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, ordering a penalty five times larger than the FTC's 2019 fine.
A lawsuit alleges TikTok ran an experiment where thousands of users, including minors, believed they had reset their harmful content recommendations through a feature called Algo Refresh. Their feeds never actually changed.
TikTok agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million and roll out teen safety features — a 2-hour daily cap, midnight-to-6am blackout, and private-by-default accounts — settling a youth mental health suit days before trial.
A six-year inquiry into Web & App Activity, Location History, and Location Accuracy found Google failed to meet GDPR's lawfulness, transparency, and accountability standards — the fourth-largest DPC fine to date.
A hacker collective physically extracted a Flock Safety license-plate camera's internal storage, revealing it runs unpatched Android 8.1 from 2018, a hardcoded API key exposing every camera on the network, and an encryption key stored unencrypted next to the data it protects.
The European Commission's newly announced KIDS Act requires AI chatbots and companions to be switched off by default for minors and bans design patterns that create emotional dependency, alongside a tiered social media age system starting at 13.
Signal is moving to allow account registration without a phone number, using zero-knowledge proofs tied to a one-time payment to block bots while keeping user identity private.
New connected products sold in the EU from today must give users direct data access by default, closing a gap in the Data Act's request-based rules from last year.
Governor Newsom signed 13 bills restricting how tech companies can design chatbots and social platforms for minors, with penalties up to $1 million per child for negligent harm.
A dark web marketplace offered scans of 153 million US and Canadian driver's licenses, plus millions of ID cards and medical records, sourced from identity verification firm IDScan.net. The FBI is investigating.
Hackers stole contact details, vehicle plates, and Wi-Fi sign-up data from 8.7 million customers across three UK airports in a data-theft extortion attack, though no payment information was taken.