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RSS feed →Human Error, Not a Cyberattack: Inside the Johns Hopkins AI Data Exposure
A major patient privacy breach at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center was triggered not by malicious hackers or sophisticated malware, but by…
The Death of the “Vanity Banner”: As Shopify Clamps Down on Broken Privacy Apps, E-Commerce Faces a Real Compliance Reckoning
For years, the e-commerce playbook for data privacy was simple, cheap, and dangerously superficial: install a $5-a-month cookie app, match the banner…
Shopify App Store Purge Raises Security and Data Privacy Concerns for Millions of Merchants
Hundreds of third-party applications have disappeared from the Shopify App Store during October 2026, as a series of confirmed security incidents exposed…
NEWS 7 min read
Judge Approves Google’s $8.25 Million AdMob Children’s Privacy Settlement at About $12 a Claim
A federal judge in San Jose has given final approval to an $8.25 million class settlement resolving claims that Google’s AdMob advertising…
NEWS 8 min read
Lyft Pays $1.8 Million Because Its Opt-Out Lived on a Webpage, Not in the App
Lyft will pay $1.8 million in civil penalties to settle allegations that it sold and shared California users’ personal information for in-app…
NEWS 1 min read
Hacktivists Publish Records on 41,000 DHS Employees and Contractors: What the Icepick Leak Shows About Staff Directories
A hacktivist group calling itself the Department of Peace says it took personnel records on more than 41,000 employees and contractors of…
NEWS 1 min read
GM Agrees to Pay $220 Million to 36 States Over Sold Driving Data, and Dealers Are Part of the Fix
General Motors will pay $220 million to settle claims from 36 attorneys general that it sold drivers’ driving behavior and location data…
NEWS 1 min read
DOJ Will Appeal After Judge Refuses to Let TikTok Out of Its 2019 Children’s Privacy Order
The Justice Department says it will appeal a federal judge’s refusal to approve its proposed settlement with TikTok, a deal that would…
NEWS 7 min read
House Democrats Ask Five AI Labs for 48-Hour Incident Alerts as the FTC Presses Anthropic to Testify
Three senior House Democrats have sent letters to five of the largest artificial intelligence developers asking for an account of past safety…
NEWS 6 min read
Noyb Files Five GDPR Complaints Against Scale AI Over Alleged Surveillance of Outlier Workers
European privacy group noyb filed five GDPR complaints against Scale AI on October 27, 2026, in France, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria.
NEWS 8 min read
Draft California Rules Would Name Global Privacy Control as an Opt-Out Signal Businesses Must Honor
California’s privacy regulator has published draft text that would name Global Privacy Control in its own rules as an example of an…
UNIQLO, GU, Theory, and Helmut Lang Add Ad Choices Links After BBB Review of Interest-Based Advertising
BBB National Programs’ Digital Advertising Accountability Program closed a review of Fast Retailing on October 20.