Software company Saturn Technologies, maker of the Saturn app for high school students, will pay a penalty of $650,000 for failing to protect users' privacy, New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) said on Friday. An investigation by the AG’s office found that while Saturn claimed only high school students from the same school could interact with each other on the app, the company did not take measures to verify the emails and ages of users, allowing anyone to join and access personal information found on the app.
The General Data Protection Regulation shouldn't become a tiered, risk-based entity, though the European Commission should have more centralized power to enforce it, Charly Helleputte, Squire Patton Boggs EU data privacy attorney, emailed. His comments responded to Axel Voss' recent tiered GDPR proposal. Voss is a German Member of the European Parliament from the European People's Party Group. He discussed his proposal during a March 3-4 Centre for European Policy Studies Ideas Lab panel.
Expect the Trump administration’s FTC to take a less aggressive approach to privacy enforcement than the prior administration, a former FTC enforcer said at a BBB National Programs webinar Thursday. Meanwhile, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has focused on enforcement claims related to geolocation data, said Tyler Bridegan, who heads that state’s privacy enforcement unit.
The U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania Tuesday approved a $6.8 million settlement between Rite Aid and class-action plaintiffs in a data-breach case where the drugstore chain exposed the personally identifiable information (PII) of more than 2 million people in 2024.
A California bill restricting how employers use workplace surveillance tools would go beyond laws in other states, cautioned Fisher Phillips lawyers in a blog post Monday.
California-based Background Alert must shut down through 2028, or face a $50,000 fine for failing to register as a data broker and pay an annual fee, according to terms of a settlement with the California Privacy Protection Agency. CPPA, which announced the agreement Thursday, raised privacy concerns with the people-search company’s business model in its Wednesday order approving the settlement.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is fulfilling statutory work obligations while carrying out the Trump administration’s plan to streamline operations, DOJ said in a filing Monday.
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) on Tuesday released its first annual report, offering an overview of what it has accomplished since voters established it in November 2020.
New York state's attorney general will likely play a more prominent role in privacy and cybersecurity oversight in 2025, said Morrison Foerster lawyers in a blog post Monday.
Amazon and plaintiff Dominic Mayhall announced on Wednesday that they reached a confidential settlement in a case alleging violation of the Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). As part of the settlement, both parties agreed to a dismissal with prejudice of the plaintiff’s claims.