Tesla sues two former employees over data breach impacting over 75,000 people
Tesla Inc.’s May data breach impacted more than 75,000 people, included employee-related records and was a result of “insider wrongdoing,” according to a notice posted by the office of the Maine Attorney General...
Meta loses EU data protection case
Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook lost its European Union court fight over a German antitrust order that homed in on the US tech firm’s power to cash-in on a vast trove of users’ data.
The EU’s Court of Justice ruled that Germany’s Federal Cartel Office didn’t...
Information regulator probing SABC over security flaw in TV Licence portal
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is under investigation by the Information Regulator over a vulnerability that let attackers access peoples' TV Licence accounts without their passwords.
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Chinese smartphone maker takes user data
Xiaomi Inc said it had upgraded its operating system to ensure users knew it was collecting data from their address books
Internet search giant Google was fined 145,000 euros (189,230 dollars) by German authorities Monday for collecting large amounts of personal data from wireless networks through cameras installed on vehicles for its street view service.
The data protection office in the northern German city of...