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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Netflix, accusing the streaming service of collecting user data without consent, particularly from children. The suit claims the platform is designed to be addictive and that Netflix profits by selling the data.

10. toukokuuta 2026 Raportoinut AI

General Motors has reached a settlement with California to pay $12.75 million in civil penalties over the sale of customers' driving data. The agreement also imposes a five-year ban on selling such information to consumer reporting agencies, adding to prior regulatory actions including a finalized FTC settlement earlier this year.

The House and Senate approved a short-term extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act early Friday, moving the program’s expiration from April 20 to April 30 after longer renewal plans stalled amid divisions among House Republicans. President Donald Trump signed the extension on Saturday, setting up another high-stakes fight ahead of the new deadline.

17. huhtikuuta 2026 Raportoinut AI

DuckDuckGo's VPN service has passed a no-log policy audit conducted by cybersecurity firm Securitum, confirming it does not track or retain user browsing activity. The audit, spanning October 2025 to January 2026, included technical inspections, source code reviews, and live system analysis. DuckDuckGo announced the results on Thursday, sharing the full security report.

Swiss privacy company Proton has introduced Workspace, a new office suite bundling its services including email, VPN, documents and video conferencing. The product targets businesses seeking alternatives to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. It emphasizes end-to-end encryption and data control.

26. maaliskuuta 2026 Raportoinut AI

A group calling itself the Internet Yiff Machine has released 93 gigabytes of data purportedly stolen from P3 Global Intel, a platform used by Crime Stoppers programs and law enforcement for managing anonymous crime tips. The data, containing sensitive personal information on millions of tips, was sent to Straight Arrow News and the Distributed Denial of Secrets archive. Navigate360, which owns P3, has not confirmed the breach but hired a digital forensics firm to investigate.