FTC bans General Motors from selling driver data for five years

The Federal Trade Commission has taken action against General Motors and OnStar for allegedly sharing details about drivers to third parties without their consent. The agency launched an investigation into the automotive company after The New York Times found that GM had collected data about customers’ vehicle use and sold it to third-party platforms used … Read more

Everyone suddenly has cold feet about banning TikTok

With a TikTok ban seemingly imminent, TikTok users have spent the last few days fleeing to Chinese social media app “RedNote,” trying to learn Mandarin, and bidding heartfelt farewells to their “Chinese spy.” But it’s looking increasingly unlikely that TikTok will actually disappear on January 19. Most Supreme Court watchers expect the court to uphold … Read more

CFPB fines Block $175m over Cash App’s lax fraud controls

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced today that’s it’s fining Block, the creator of Cash App and parent company of Square, $120 million in “refunds and redress” and a $55 million fine for how the company handled fraud on its payment platform. Per the CFPB, Cash App’s Terms of Service at one point claimed … Read more

TikTok, Temu and more face complaints alleging GDPR violations in EU

Austrian privacy advocate NOYB has launched its first GDPR complaints against Chinese businesses. The organization has filed complaints against TikTok, Xiaomi, Shein, AliExpress, Temu and WeChat, alleging that these companies unlawfully shared information about European users with parties in China. The group is seeking suspension of data transfers to China as well as fines of … Read more

Apple pauses AI notification summaries of news alerts in latest iOS beta

Some significant changes are coming to Apple Intelligence notification summaries. With the latest slate of developer previews for iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3 and macOS Sequoia 15.3, Apple has suspended the system’s aggregated notifications, specifically from news and entertainment apps, while it works on improvements to the alerts.  The company has also added a new disclosure … Read more

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