Ireland's Data Protection Commission announced a 265 million euro fine to Meta over alleged EU General Data Protection Regulation violations. The fine is the third-largest GDPR penalty served to date, following a 405 million euro fine from Ireland to Meta in September. The DPC's initial investigatio...

A report co-published by The Markup and The Verge found that several tax-filing services, including H&R Block, Tax Act and TaxSlayer, have shared users' financial data with Meta's Facebook. According to the report, data was shared through a code called Meta Pixel and included contact information...

The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta and the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec announced Canadian grocery store chain Sobeys sustained a data breach, The Globe and Mail reports. The company had claimed it was dealing with "IT system" issues recently and custom...

Researchers at the University of Guelph found electronic repair providers “lack effective privacy protocols” and “often snoop on customers' data,” The Register reports. The researchers’ study consisted of surveying 18 repair services across North America. For the study, technicians from the surveyed...

Russian scooter-sharing service Whoosh reported a hack of its database containing personal data belonging to 7.2 million people, DataBreaches.net reports. Whoosh operates in 40 Russian cities, offering more than 75,000 scooters for residents’ urban transportation needs. A hacker reportedly began sel...