Data privacy

Irish watchdog fines Meta 265M euros in latest privacy case

Irish regulators have slapped Facebook parent Meta with a 265 million euro fine in what is the company’s latest punishment for breaching strict European Union data privacy rules.

FILE - A receptionist works in the lobby of the building that houses the Twitter office in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. Elon Musk has emailed Twitter employees ordering them to return to the office starting Thursday for at least 40 hours a week and warning of “difficult times ahead.” (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Musk warns Twitter’s survival is at stake as staff quits

FILE - A sign promoting Native American participation in the U.S. census is displayed as Selena Rides Horse enters information into her phone on behalf of a member of the Crow Indian Tribe in Lodge Grass, Mont., Aug. 26, 2020. The U.S. Census Bureau is putting together a new plan to protect the privacy of participants whose detailed data was collected from the 2020 census. The plan set to be released next year was outlined Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in front of members of the bureau's National Advisory Committee. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Census: Detailed age, sex data may be limited based on place

President Joe Biden speaks at an IBM facility in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on Thursday Oct. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden order promises EU citizens better data privacy

This photo provided by Jeffrey Chester, shows Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy. Chester has advocated in Washington for privacy protection for 25 years, warning about threats to online privacy. (Lucia SantaMaria/Jeffrey Chester via AP)

Insider Q&A: Privacy advocate sees growing public alarm

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FILE - In this photo released by the Riverside County Sheriff's Office are some of about 700 marijuana plants found in an illegal grow in a home near Temecula, Calif., on Aug. 28, 2019. A data privacy watchdog's lawsuit says a Northern California utility routinely fed customers' power use information to police so they could target illicit marijuana grows, without requiring a warrant or suspicion of wrongdoing. (Riverside County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Lawsuit: California utility targeted Asians in pot searches

FILE - An Uber sign is displayed at the company's headquarters in San Francisco, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Uber said Thursday, Sept. 15, that it reached out to law enforcement after a hacker apparently breached its network. A security engineer said the intruder provided evidence of obtaining access to crucial systems at the ride-hailing service. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Serious breach at Uber spotlights hacker social deception

California 1st with law protecting children’s online privacy

FILE - Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows attends the summer conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State in Baton Rouge, La., on July 8, 2022. One of the strictest internet privacy laws in the United States has withstood a legal challenge, as a group of telecommunication providers has dropped its bid to overturn the Maine standard on Sept. 2, 2022. The Maine Legislature passed the bill, proposed by former Democratic state Sen. Bellows in 2019. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File)

Internet service providers drop challenge of privacy law

FILE - This Friday, Aug. 23, 2019 photo shows the Instagram app icon on the screen of a mobile device in New York. Ireland's Data Protection Commission said by email on Monday, Sept. 5, 2022, that it made a final decision on Friday to fine the company 405 million euros ($402 million) for mishandling teenagers' personal data. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, file).

Irish watchdog fines Instagram 405M euros in teen data case

KeyBank: Hackers of third-party provider stole customer data

FILE - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. arrives for a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Malacanang Palace in Manila, Philippines, on Aug. 6, 2022. President Marcos Jr. will travel to Indonesia and Singapore in his first overseas trip since taking office in June to intensify security ties and discuss crises confronting the region, including the strife in Myanmar, officials said Friday Sept. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Marcos flying to Indonesia, Singapore on first foreign trip

FILE - The Federal Trade Commission building in Washington pictured on Jan. 28, 2015. Federal regulators on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, sued a data broker they accuse of selling sensitive geolocation data from millions of mobile devices, information that can be used to identify people and track their movements to and from sensitive locations, including reproductive health clinics, homeless shelters and places of worship. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

FTC accuses data broker of selling sensitive location data

FILE - The Twitter splash page is displayed on a digital device in San Diego on April 25, 2022. U.S. lawmakers are anxious to hear from Twitter’s former security chief, who has alarmed Washington with allegations that the influential social network misled regulators about its cyber defenses and efforts to control fake accounts. The Senate Judiciary Committee announced Wednesday, Aug. 24 that whistleblower Peiter Zatko will testify at a hearing on Sept. 13 - the same day Twitter's shareholders are scheduled to vote on the company's pending buyout by Musk. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Congress wants to hear what Twitter whistleblower has to say

FILE - California Attorney General Rob Bonta talks at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., June 28, 2022. California has settled a lawsuit against one of the world's largest cosmetics retailers that it accused of selling customer information without proper notice in violation of the state's landmark consumer privacy law, Bonta said Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Cosmetics giant Sephora settles customer data privacy suit

Judge rules video scan of room before online testing illegal

FILE - A sign is shown on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif., on Sept. 24, 2019. Hundreds of Google employees are petitioning the company to extend its abortion healthcare benefits to contract workers and to strengthen privacy protections for Google users searching for abortion information online. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Google workers demand abortion protections, data privacy

FILE - Lina Khan, then-nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), speaks during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 21, 2021. Whether it is a fitness tracker, “smart” home appliances or the latest kids’ fad going viral in online videos, they all produce a trove of personal data for big tech companies. How that data is being used and protected has led to growing public concern and officials’ outrage. Now federal regulators are looking at drafting rules to crack down on what they call harmful commercial surveillance and lax data security. The FTC announced the initiative Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner via AP, Pool, File)

FTC looking at rules to corral tech firms’ data collection

EXPLAINER: Online privacy in a post-Roe world

FILE - This May 18, 2021, photo shows a person typing on a laptop on a train in New Jersey. Democratic lawmakers are widening their scrutiny into the role of tech companies in collecting personal data of people who may be seeking an abortion, as lawmakers, regulators and the Biden administration grapple with the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling ending the constitutional protections for abortion. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Democrats widen scrutiny of tech over abortion data privacy

FILE - A woman walks past the headquarters for Didi Beijing on July 16, 2021. China’s internet watchdog has fined ride-hailing firm Didi Global more than 8 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) following an investigation into the company’s cybersecurity practices. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China’s Didi Global fined $1.2 billion for data violations

President Joe Biden speaks about abortion access during an event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, July 8, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Impassioned Biden signs order on abortion access

FILE - An advertisement for Bitcoin cryptocurrency is displayed on a street in Hong Kong, on Feb. 17, 2022. Europe is poised to take the global lead in regulating the freewheeling cryptocurrency industry at a time when prices have plunged, wiping out fortunes, fueling skepticism and sparking calls for tighter scrutiny. European Union negotiators were set to hold talks on Thursday, June 30, 2022, to hammer out the final details in the bloc's sweeping package of crypto rules. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Crypto rules to make Europe a global leader as prices plunge

FILE - A person is silhouetted against a wall as they look down at their cell phone outside the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on July 29, 2021, in Los Angeles. With abortion now or soon to be illegal in over a dozen states and severely restricted in many more, Big Tech companies that vacuum up personal details of their users are facing new calls to limit that tracking and surveillance. One fear is that law enforcement or vigilantes could use those data troves against people seeking ways to end unwanted pregnancies. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

EXPLAINER: Data privacy concerns emerge after Roe decision

Clinic escort Kim Gibson stands outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss., calling out to incoming patients that the clinic is still open, moments after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade was issued, Friday, June 24, 2022. The clinic is the only facility that performs abortions in the Mississippi. However, the ruling ends constitutional protections for abortion. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

After Roe, Dems seek probe of tech’s use of personal data

Cyprus helps bust illicit sale of private data on Americans

FILE - Lina Khan, nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), speaks during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing, April 21, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Khan, the head of the Federal Trade Commission says she’ll continue to lead a robust agenda of actions and policies to help safeguard the data privacy of children online. The work will include toughened enforcement of protections under a long-standing law governing kids’ online privacy and paying attention to the algorithms used by social media platforms that target young people. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP, File)

FTC Chair Khan plans key work on kids’ data privacy online

Customers stand near a display of Kindle electronic readers at the opening day for Amazon Books, the first brick-and-mortar retail store for online retail giant Amazon, Nov. 3, 2015, in Seattle. Amazon said Thursday, June 2, 2022 it will shut down its digital Kindle bookstores in China and stop selling the device to retailers in the country. The company said in a WeChat post that the bookstore will stop operating on June 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Amazon to close Kindle bookstore in China, halt device sale

FILE - In this April 26, 2017, photo is a Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. Twitter will pay a $150 million penalty and put in new safeguards to settle federal regulators’ allegations that the social platform failed to protect the privacy of users’ data over a six-year span. The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission announced the settlement Wednesday, may 25, 2022, with Twitter. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Twitter to pay $150M penalty over privacy of users’ data

FILE - District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine attends a news conference near the White House in Washington, Feb. 26, 2018. On Monday, May 23, 2022, the District of Columbia sued Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, seeking to hold him personally liable for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a privacy breach of millions of Facebook users’ personal data that became a major corporate and political scandal. Racine filed the civil lawsuit against Zuckerberg in D.C. Superior Court. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

DC sues Zuckerberg over Cambridge Analytica privacy breach

Breach exposed data of half-million Chicago students, staff

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