Google agreed to pay $93 million dollars to settle claims from the California Attorney General that it had deceived users with its location-privacy practices and violated consumer protection laws ... +Read more
The FTC took Amazon Ring to task for compromising people’s privacy by giving employee and contractors unnecessary and unrestricted access to sensitive video information and failing to provide notice or consent for access, and failing to secure its devices from hacks. It... +Read more
The FCC hit Q Link Wireless LLC and Hello Mobile Telecom LLC with a proposed penalty of $20 million in 2023 for failing to protect the privacy and security of people’s information. FCC rules require service... +Read more
AT&T was blasted in the press for its “ sloppy” cybersecurity,... +Read more
Meta ended up in hot water with international regulators, faced big daily fines, and was forced to pause its release of Generative AI products in the EU and... +Read more
LinkedIn became noisy with angry posts when the company was not fully transparent with users and tried to silently opt people into use of their information for AI. LinkedIn automatically “... +Read more
Rite Aid had to agree to stop using facial recognition systems for five years and to delete its stored biometric information and associated artificial intelligence models in order to settle... +Read more
Meta was forced pay $1.4 billion to settle a... +Read more
The FCC fined mobile carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon nearly $200 million for illegally sharing customers’ personal information without their consent. The personal information in question included user geolocation histories, which the... +Read more
The FTC banned data broker Mobilewalla from selling sensitive location information after finding that : (1) Mobilewalla improperly collected this information... +Read more
The Federal Communications Commission held AT&T responsible for failing to protect its customer’s personal information when one of its third-party vendors suffered a breach, exposing almost 9 million AT&T users’ customer data. AT&T agreed to pay $13 million in... +Read more