Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Uber agrees to $148 million settlement with US States and the District of Columbia over the massive 2016 data breach that exposed personal data of 57 million of its users. The hackers tried to blackmail Uber and demanded $100,000 from the company in exchange for avoiding publish the stolen data. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 2, 2025

The latest wave of privacy litigation doesn't involve data breaches, AI models, or spyware. Companies across industries are being sued for using widely available web technologies: session replay tools, analytics platforms, and advertising trackers. None of this is new or particularly exotic.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

A California company that helps telemarketing firms avoid getting sued for violating a federal law that seeks to curb robocalls has leaked the phone numbers, email addresses and passwords of all its customers, as well as the mobile phone numbers and other data on people who have hired lawyers to go after telemarketers.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

GDPR, the EU’s flagship data privacy and “right to be forgotten” regulation, has made the stakes of a data breach higher than ever. Health data and patient data in the U.S. Financial Data Protection Laws. In the U.S.,

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Centraleyes

APRIL 15, 2024

Notably, MODPA prohibits the sale of sensitive data, a provision unparalleled in other state privacy laws. Consumer Rights and Sensitive Data MODPA grants Maryland consumers various rights, including access to their personal data, correction, deletion, and data portability.

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Centraleyes

JUNE 10, 2024

Data Handling: Assist the controller in fulfilling data protection obligations, such as data breach notifications or handling data subject requests. What rights do consumers have under the UCPA? Access: Consumers have the right to know what personal data is being collected about them.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Thus, if a business encrypts the personal information of the consumer, and that information is stolen, there will be no private right of action under the CCPA. Those amendments were the subject of a contentious battle between interested stakeholders. That does not mean, however, that the business would be completely off the hook.

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