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Judge Allows States’ Lawsuit Over Facebook and Instagram Youth Harms to Proceed

The ruling narrows the case by finding Meta failed to meet COPPA notice and consent rules, sending disputed design and addictiveness claims to trial.

GM to Pay $12.75 Million in California’s Record Privacy Case Over Driver Data

GM Reaches $12.75 Million California Deal Over OnStar Data Sales

OpenAI Begins U.S. ChatGPT Ad Test, Drawing Privacy Scrutiny

BBC Probe Exposes China’s Secret Hotel Spycam Market Livestreaming Guests

Sainsbury’s Extends Facial Recognition to Five London Stores This Week

UK Lords Back Under-16 Social Media Ban as Government Opens Consultation

California’s One-Stop Data Deletion Portal Goes Live as Regulators Fine Brokers for Failing to Register

Ontario and Alberta Watchdogs Urge Fixes After PowerSchool Breach Exposed Millions

Toys 'R' Us Canada Discloses Summer Cyber Incident That Copied Customer Contact Data

Canadian Tire Reports E-Commerce Data Breach Exposing Customer Details

Telegram’s Pavel Durov Warns the “Free Internet” Is Dying, Citing Expanding State Controls

Trump Signs Order Shifting U.S. TikTok Control to Allied Investor Group

Canada Finds TikTok’s Child Safeguards Inadequate, Sets Conditions and Oversight

EU Moves to Curb Cookie Pop-Ups With December Omnibus Proposal

Sainsbury’s Begins 8-Week Facial Recognition Trial in London and Bath Stores

Hong Kong Opens Criminal Probe Into AI Porn Case as University Reexamines Response

German Regulator Moves to Ban DeepSeek From App Stores

Gravy Analytics Data Breach Exposes Millions to Privacy Risks

Mozilla to Remove 'Do Not Track' Feature from Firefox in February 2025