Mark Lanier was the lead attorney in the first social media addiction case to go to trial, against Meta and Google, which saw the plaintiff awarded $6 million in damages. Speaking at WIRED World Fair in Miami, Lanier recalls a moment…
This privacy statement tells you what to expect when Erewash Borough Council collects personal information. It applies to information we collect about: Erewash Borough Council is registered as a data controller with the Information Commissioner's Office, Registration Number Z5708006 Contact details…
Criminals have published data stolen from a Bristol City Council schools platform, and the council confirmed it on November 5, 2026. Silicon UK and the BBC both report that the Bristol schools hack has moved from a contained incident to a public…
The story lands in a busy week for education-sector security. We covered the Michigan State password reset tied to a ransomware claim only days ago, and the pattern is familiar: student records sit in systems built for convenience first and…
The case is Ryan Mun et al v. Axon Enterprise, No. 3:26-cv-13127, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs want more than $5 million in damages and a court order that stops the practices they call unlawful. Axon…
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has successfully argued a B.C. law can not be used to order it to delete an intimate image British Columbiaâs Civil Resolution Tribunal published its decision on the dispute Monday, dismissing an application…
The department says it knows about a potential breach and is working on it. The exact size of the exposure is still disputed, with some reports citing more than 40,000 records and others more than 41,000. Whether the hacker really got in…
Canada’s federal Privacy Commissioner, Philippe Dufresne, has opened an investigation into Navigate360, the U.S. company that managed the P3 tip platform at the centre of the Crime Stoppers breach, Global News reported. The Navigate360 privacy commissioner investigation will test whether the company’s security…
A caution before the analysis. The fact base here is thin by design. DHS has confirmed very little beyond the existence of a potential breach, and nobody has publicly established how the records were obtained. Everything below that goes past…
Numbers are scarce, which is itself a finding. The disclosure lists four categories of exposed data and several categories that were reportedly not accessed. It gives no count of affected customers and no count of records. Chainalysis said it was…
Civil actions for data misuse, tracking, and privacy violations.
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