Google agreed to purge billions of records containing personal information collected from more than 136 million people using its Chrome web browser as part...
The House passed legislation that would ban TikTok if its China-based owner ByteDance doesn’t sell its stakes in the popular social media platform within...
Irish regulators are slapping Instagram with a big fine after an investigation found the social media platform mishandled teenagers’ personal information in violation of...
Federal regulators have sued a data broker they accuse of selling sensitive geolocation data from millions of mobile devices, information that can be used...
Facebook’s corporate parent has reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social network service allowed millions of its users’ personal...
BalkanID, a Texas startup building technology in the Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) space, has added $2.3 million to its seed financing round, bringing...
Sephora Inc., one of the world’s largest cosmetics retailers, has settled a lawsuit claiming that the company sold customer information without proper notice in...
Popular streaming media platform Plex is scrambling to reset user passwords after a database hack that included the theft of emails, usernames, and encrypted...
Healthcare services provider Novant Health has sent notifications to more than 1.3 million individuals that their protected health information (PHI) might have been inadvertently...
A researcher has conducted an analysis to see how major companies could track user activity through their mobile in-app browsers, and released a free...