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Its goal is to ensure compliance with new state privacy laws and aid the ad industry in managing consent and privacy across disciplines.

Now, the law is being tested in litigation to see if it can be applicable to charge retailers, including Patagonia Inc. and Macy’s Inc., when transactions are made online.

The data of 2.9 billion people is at risk from one of the largest-ever breaches. This is due to a hack of data records provider, National Public Data, a company that specializes in background checks and fraud prevention. The hacker group offered the international data on the dark web for ~$3.5 million, and the compromised data includes names, addresses and social security numbers.

Activist group noyb has filed complaints in Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Poland looking to force Elon Musk’s X to suspend or restrict processing the personal data of EU user posts to AI-train Grok. The complaints were filed because the group felt Ireland’s Data Protection Committee (DPC) wasn’t getting to the core of the problem to ensure X will be fully investigated for GDPR compliance.

Thinking about data privacy in the metaverse? If not, it’s a good time to start. Actions there will have real-world implications, and the international legal body, Interpol is already developing laws that can be enforced across platforms. But there are big challenges, particularly given that there are no obvious national borders. And for privacy, the threat potential is real, including for identity theft, surveillance and unlawful collection of personal data. There are many questions, particularly: How can privacy be protected in a virtual world where every action is tracked and... Read More >

The proposed class action accuses Meta of intentionally making products addictive to children and seeks at least $5 billion to compensate the millions of kids who use Instagram regularly. Citing numerous internal documents previously made public on how the company deliberately designed features to keep kids on the platform and induced worry about self-esteem, body image, popularity, and got kids addicted to an algorithmically sorted infinite news feed. The suit also calls out CEO Mark Zuckerberg for repeatedly refusing to fix known problems.

The regulator is also looking at Temu, the next largest online retailer.

This included patient medical and billing records, passwords, and information on patient status.

The $1.4 billion privacy settlement is the largest to date by a US state, according to Texas’ attorney general, resulting from a lawsuit that alleged Meta violated Texas privacy law by illegally collecting facial images of millions of users by tagging faces on its site. Texas, Illinois and Washington have laws regulating collection of facial, voice and other biometric data.

Personal details of UK voters were vulnerable to cyber-hackers for more than a year, beginning in August 2021, due to insufficient protections by the Electoral Commission, which has been formally reprimanded by the UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO). Computers holding the voter data had software that had not been updated and passwords had not been changed.

Take our word for it, TikTok is bad, seems to be the US Department of Justice (DOJ)’s approach to defending the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The new law is designed to control threats from China with a special focus on ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company. The DOJ laid out arguments in court papers, but large portions are blacked out, presumably for security reasons. This, along with the specificity of the law against a single company, prompted opposition from the company and civil liberties groups.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing TikTok, charging it let kids under age 13 onto its platform without obtaining parental consent. The suit alleges the company violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by letting young children set up accounts, collecting their personal information, and not honoring parental requests for deletion.