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A class action lawsuit alleges that Google's package-tracking widget and UPS shared user data with at least 28 third-party companies, including Meta, Adobe, and Microsoft, despite Google's interface stating "only your tracking number will be sent to UPS." The complaint claims the tool transmitted tracking numbers, IP addresses, device details, Facebook account IDs, and advertising identifiers when users clicked the track button, with some data allegedly used to build consumer profiles and tar...

Ireland's Supreme Court will hear an appeal by the Data Protection Commission regarding a €310 million fine it imposed on LinkedIn in October 2024 for violating European data protection laws. LinkedIn has challenged the fine in court, arguing the DPC exceeded its constitutional authority by imposing such a severe penalty. The case affects hundreds of millions of LinkedIn users and will likely influence how future GDPR enforcement actions are handled.

MIT filed a patent lawsuit against Amazon Web Services on October 9, 2026, alleging that AWS's cloud security technology infringes two university-held patents related to physical unclonable functions (PUFs), which create unique cryptographic keys for device security. The university claims AWS uses the disputed technology through systems supplied by Synopsys and is seeking unspecified monetary damages. MIT previously filed a similar patent suit against Microsoft in May 2026 over the same techn...

A federal appeals court rejected an attempt by 185 Google Chrome users to join a long-running lawsuit alleging that Google secretly collected browsing data from users in Incognito mode, ruling their intervention came too late in the six-year case. The original 2020 lawsuit claimed Google used embedded tools like Google Analytics and Ad Manager to track users' IP addresses, URLs, and device information on third-party websites even when users believed private browsing mode protected them. The c...

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office secured commitments from ten major AI developers - including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft - to improve how they handle personal data in AI training, following a compliance review under UK data protection law. The companies agreed to provide clearer explanations of data use, better processes for users to exercise their data rights, and stronger safeguards assessments. The ICO continues to monitor implementation and has opened a separate investigation...

A six-hour breach at Double Counter, a verification service for Discord communities, exposed data from approximately 28 million Discord accounts on October 4th, including usernames, IP addresses, rough locations, email addresses, and VPN detection records. The attacker also fraudulently charged over $7,300 to stored credit cards, though Double Counter states no passwords or card numbers were exposed in the breach. The combination of usernames, IP addresses, and location data could enable trac...

Meta announced new measures to combat child sexual exploitation on its platforms, including improved AI tools to detect ads that covertly direct users to illegal content off-platform and enhanced network-level investigations of predatory accounts. The company reports violating content to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and has deployed new large language models to identify "signposting" tactics where seemingly harmless ads serve as coded signals for illegal material. Thes...

UK regulator Ofcom is investigating Meta for potentially violating the Online Safety Act by allegedly failing to conduct adequate risk assessments before launching Instagram's Instants feature, which allows users to send disappearing images. The investigation focuses on whether Meta properly evaluated risks of illegal content and child access before rolling out the Snapchat-style feature. Violations of the Act can result in fines up to 10% of global revenue, and Meta is already facing separat...

Poland's competition regulator has accused Google of leveraging its dominant market position by failing to provide required data to local news publishers when negotiating compensation for displaying their articles in Search, News, and Discover. The Office of Competition and Consumer Protection could fine Google up to 10 percent of its annual revenue for allegedly violating rules that mandate what information must be shared with publishers to determine fair payment. This enforcement action aff...

A federal judge ruled that YouTubers can proceed with a lawsuit accusing ByteDance of scraping their videos from YouTube without authorization to train AI models, allegedly bypassing YouTube's data protections and causing the creators to lose advertising revenue. The court found the plaintiffs sufficiently demonstrated potential financial harm directly linked to ByteDance's circumvention of security measures, rejecting the company's argument that the creators lacked legal standing to sue. Thi...