Discord, Inc., a voice over IP and instant messaging company, was fined €800,000 by France’s data authority CNIL for failing to define and honor a data retention period in accordance with GDPR. The amount of the fine took into consideration the number people impacted, which was close to 3 million, and also the fact that the company worked throughout the investigation to reach compliance.

Favorite brands have secret ways to get you to gift them your data for the holidays. This is made easy via fun products, including from Meta with their Quest Pro ocular-reading headset; Amazon, which is hungry for more data to feed Alexa and has several new product offerings; and Google, Verizon, Nintendo and others. The majority of products on this Top 10 gift list are, however, a bit unclear on how you can delete data after you provide it – but no worries! The companies are happy to keep it.