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title: "Privacy"
description: "Privacy stories from the Sonomos Newsroom. Personal data: how it is collected, used, shared and exposed, and the rights people have over it."
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[Sonomos Newsroom](https://sonomos.ai/newsroom/)

# Privacy

Personal data: how it is collected, used, shared and exposed, and the rights people have over it.

3 stories

Privacy

## [California settles with 23andMe's successor for $6.01 million over the 2023 genetic-data breach](https://sonomos.ai/newsroom/california-23andme-settlement-6-million-genetic-data/)

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.

Oct 21, 20262 min read

- Privacy

  ## [Norway fines Microsoft-owned Xandr €8.6 million over Grindr users' data in real-time bidding](https://sonomos.ai/newsroom/norway-fines-xandr-grindr-real-time-bidding-consent/)

  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.

  Oct 18, 20262 min read
- Privacy

  ## [Forty attorneys general call for privacy protections from any buyer of Character.AI and its users' chats](https://sonomos.ai/newsroom/state-attorneys-general-character-ai-bankruptcy-chat-data/)

  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.

  Oct 17, 20262 min read

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