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European regulators slapped TikTok with a $368 million fine for failing to protect children’s privacy, the first time that the popular short video-sharing app has been punished for breaching Europe’s strict data privacy rules.
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California state Legislature has passed the Delete Act to allow individuals to order data brokers to delete their personal data — and to cease acquiring and selling it in the future.
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Search giant Google has agreed to a $93 million settlement with the state of California over its location-privacy practices.
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Personal details of thousands of police officers and staff from Greater Manchester Police have been hacked from a company that makes identity cards.
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Tech executives discussed the idea of government regulations for artificial intelligence (AI) at an unusual closed-door meeting in the U.S. Senate on September 13th.
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Portuguese hacker behind “Football Leaks” convicted by a Lisbon court of nine crimes and given a suspended prison sentence of four years.
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One of Myanmar’s biggest and most powerful ethnic minority militias arrested and repatriated more than 1,200 Chinese nationals allegedly involved in criminal online scam operations.
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Vladislav Klyushin was sentenced to nine years in prison for his role in a nearly $100M stock market cheating scheme that relied on information stolen by hacking.
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United Airlines flights were halted nationwide on Sept. 5, because of an “equipment outage,” according to the FAA.
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Norfolk Southern believes a software defect — not a hacker — was the cause of the widespread computer outage that forced the railroad to park all of its trains.
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