Personal data: how it is collected, used, shared and exposed, and the rights people have over it.
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California's attorney general says a $6 million settlement resolves the state's claims over 23andMe's 2023 breach and its challenge to the sale of customers' genetic data. The filing puts the figure at $6,010,000.
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Norway's data protection authority fined ad-tech firm Xandr €8.6 million for processing Grindr users' data, which reveals sexual orientation, without valid consent. It rejected the argument that Grindr's consent was enough.
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In Character.AI's Chapter 11 case, 39 states and the District of Columbia told the court they would press any buyer of the company or its data to adopt nine protections, including letting users delete their data before a sale.
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