Breaking news and updates from the world of technology.
The European Commission sent TikTok preliminary findings on July 24 concluding that default settings on minors' public accounts expose their content too broadly, in violation of the Digital Services Act — a finding that could lead to a fine of up to 6% of TikTok's global turnover.
A supply chain attack on Suno in November 2025 revealed the AI music startup scraped decades of audio from YouTube, Deezer, and Genius — and failed to notify customers whose data was also stolen.
A US federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action seeking $32.8 billion in damages that accused Apple of failing to prevent child sexual abuse material from circulating on iCloud, citing Section 230 protections in a major legal win for the company.
Samsung is demanding that Health app users agree to hand over medication records, medical diagnoses, and cycle tracking data to train its AI models — or face data deletion and loss of syncing.
The Los Angeles Police Department, the nation's third-largest police force, allowed its three-year contract with license-plate-reader company Flock Safety to lapse on July 13, citing unresolved privacy and civil rights issues — joining a growing list of cities cutting ties with the surveillance vendor.
A two-year European Commission investigation has preliminarily found that Meta violates the DSA through infinite scroll, autoplay, and personalized recommendations designed to drive compulsive use — findings that could trigger fines of up to 6% of Meta's global revenue, over $12 billion.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer will formally announce a ban on social media platforms for children under 16 on Monday, June 16 — putting the UK on a path that Australia pioneered in late 2024.
South Korea's PIPC issued a 624.68 billion won ($409M) fine to Coupang today — the largest data privacy penalty in Korean history — after finding the e-commerce giant exposed 37.5 million users' personal data through negligent security practices and secretly tracked 11.17 million additional users across third-party websites.
The FTC has moved to settle its long-running case against Kochava with an order that would stop the data broker from selling Americans' precise location data without explicit consumer consent and impose new compliance controls if the court approves it.
The European Commission says Meta’s age checks did not effectively stop children under 13 from creating or keeping Instagram and Facebook accounts.
Norway says it will send a bill to parliament this year to block under-16s from social media, adding new pressure on platforms to enforce age checks.
Researchers say covert surveillance operators exploited SS7, Diameter, and silent SMS techniques to geolocate targets through telecom infrastructure.