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23andMe to pay $30 million in settlement over 2023 data breach

September 16, 2024 admin 23andMe, news, privacy, privacy and mediacl shield genetic monitoring, settlement

Genetic testing company 23andMe will pay $30 million over a 2023 data breach which ended in millions of customers having data exposed.

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Meta to pay $1.4 billion over unauthorized facial recognition image capture

July 31, 2024 admin biometric data, Facebook, Facial Recognition, meta, news, privacy, settlement

Meta has settled a Texas lawsuit over gathering biometric data for Facebook’s “Tag Suggestions” feature without informed consent.

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Microsoft illegally collected and retained children’s data, says FTC

June 7, 2023 admin children, COPPA, fine, FTC, games console, Gaming, microsoft, personal, privacy, settlement, video games, xbox

Categories: Personal

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Microsoft is counting the cost of privacy violations, with $20m in fines related to illegal data collection from children’s Xbox accounts.

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Google to pay $40m for “deceptive and unfair” location tracking practices

May 23, 2023 admin advertising, court, data, google, lawsuit, location, personal, settlement, tracking

Categories: Personal

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We take a look at a case where Google is agreeing to pay $40m as a result of disclosure related to location tracking issues.

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How to get your Equifax money and stay safe doing it

July 30, 2019 admin awareness, credit monitoring, data breach, data breach settlement, Equifax, EU, European Union, Federal Trade Commission, fraud, fraud prevention, FTC, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Identity Theft, phishing, scams, settlement, Social Security numbers

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Equifax has been ordered to pay at least $650 million in relation to its enormous 2017 data breach. Users who were affected might be eligible for a claim. But watch out for scams!

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Tags: credit monitoring data breach data breach settlement Equifax EU European Union Federal Trade Commission fraud fraud prevention FTC gdpr General Data Protection Regulation identity theft phishing scams settlement social security numbers

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Elon Musk Is Still Insisting Mars Will Be Settled in 2024 and Then Terraformed

September 29, 2017 admin bfr, colony, dragon, elon musk, Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Mars, Outer Space Treaty, settlement, space, SpaceX, Terraform

Credit to Author: Caroline Haskins| Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:45:00 +0000

The basis of Musk’s project rests upon ethical problems that haven’t been figured out yet.