One of the world’s largest cosmetics retailers, Sephora, will have to pay $1.2 million in fines for violating California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) by selling customers’ personal information and failing to comply with opt-out requests. According to California Attorney General Rob Bonta, in exchange for benefits like targeted advertising and discounted analytics, Sephora made its […]
Continue readingA password management provider, LastPass, suffered from a breach two weeks ago, giving hackers access to the company’s source code and confidential technical data. After receiving inquiries regarding the intrusion, LastPass issued a security advisory today revealing that it had been attacked by hackers who gained access to the company’s developer environment using a compromised developer […]
Continue readingSnapchat Lawsuit: Users in Illinois Could Receive Compensation for Using Snapchat Filters and Lenses In a landmark case concerning user privacy and biometric data, a recent Snapchat lawsuit in Illinois has culminated in a $35 million settlement. Illinois residents who used Snapchat’s filters and lenses might be eligible for financial compensation. This development comes as […]
Continue readingFor the first time, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has published a list of details on the algorithms used in select apps by internet companies like Tencent, Alibaba, and Bytedance. New legislation in China governs how Internet platform companies must protect user data. They must reveal, among other things, the techniques they employ […]
Continue readingAmazon-owned video game broadcasting service Twitch has acknowledged a serious data breach. Twitch claims that a hacker broke into the service’s servers. Due to “an error in a Twitch server configuration update that was subsequently accessed by a malicious third party,” Twitch has admitted that a hacker was able to obtain information that was […]
Continue readingThe French DPA issued a €60 million preliminary warning of a fine against the advertising technology company ‘Criteo’ for violations of the GDPR rules regulating processing practices through targeted advertising and user profiling. When the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in 2018, the digital rights advocacy group Privacy International filed an […]
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