On May 21, 2026, the Texas Attorney General filed suit against Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta) and WhatsApp, LLC (WhatsApp) in ...

Attorney General Rob Bonta alleges the company lied about the breach's severity.

Large-scale data breaches and privacy violations have become a common occurrence over the past decade amid the vast collection of personal information online. In response, a plethora of data ...

General Motors will pay $12.75 million to resolve a civil lawsuit alleging that from 2020-24, the company unlawfully sold hundreds of thousands of OnStar subscribers' personal information and driving ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert to remind Californians that they can send one ...

June 26, 2025 - The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is clear that data subjects are not entitled to compensation unless they can demonstrate that the processing of their personal data ...

By Jonathan Stempel May 28 (Reuters) - The genetics testing company 23andMe was sued on Thursday by California Attorney ...

There’s a saying in Texas: “All hat and no cattle.” It means all talk and no action. That idiom does not apply to the folks within the Consumer Protection Division of the Texas attorney general’s ...

The New York Child Data Protection Act, a landmark state law to protect children’s privacy online, officially went into effect on Friday. The new law (S.7695B/A.8149A), which was sponsored by State ...

On May 8, 2026, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, joined by district attorneys from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Napa and ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -In a first, the EU General Court ruled on Wednesday that the European Commission must pay damages to a German citizen for failing to comply with its own data protection regulations ...

The Data Protection Agency (DPA) of the Netherlands fined Uber 290 million euros on Monday for violating the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by storing the personal data of European taxi ...