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TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has raised alarm over a recent data breach at Coinbase, warning that it “will lead to people dying.” The breach exposed sensitive customer information including home addresses and account balances. Arrington called for regulators to reconsider the effectiveness of know-your-customer (KYC) policies and demanded jail time for executives who fail to […]
Italy’s data protection authority, Garante, has fined Replika, an AI chatbot company based in San Francisco, €5 million ($5.64 million) for violating user data protection rules. The decision, made public on Monday, highlights how important it is for AI platforms to have strong privacy safeguards as regulatory oversight grows. Replika, which launched in 2017, lets […]
South Korea has fined Chinese e-commerce platform Temu nearly one million dollars for illegally transferring the personal information of Korean users to China and other countries, according to the country’s data protection watchdog. Temu, along with other fast-growing Chinese platforms like Shein and AliExpress, has gained massive popularity across the world by offering a wide […]
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP, a well-known consumer rights law firm, is investigating claims from California residents who hold Yahoo accounts. The firm is looking into reports that Yahoo may have secretly intercepted private user data while users visited its websites, including yahoo.com, news.yahoo.com, finance.yahoo.com, and sports.yahoo.com that leads to privacy violation. This raises serious concerns […]