Your data is important—to you but also to corporations. Apps may sell your data and build profiles about you. How do you fight back and reclaim your privacy? You need to delete apps that vacuum up your personal information. That includes getting rid of your accounts completely and requesting they delete your private data. Here’s where to start.

Give Your Privacy a Quick Boost by Deleting These 10 Data-Hungry Apps

From huge stores of customers’ personal information getting scraped, stolen and posted online, to reams of medical data covering most people in the United States getting stolen, the worst data breaches of 2024 to date have already surpassed at least 1 billion stolen records and rising. These breaches not only affect the individuals whose data was irretrievably exposed, but also embolden the criminals who profit from their malicious cyberattacks.

The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising

Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, tops the list, both for receiving the single biggest fine to date (€1.2 billion or around $1.31 billion at current exchange rates) and because it accounts for a majority of these largest penalties (six or more, depending on whether you count per platform).

The 10 largest GDPR fines on Big Tech

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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) could fine X up to 4% of its global annual turnover if the platform can't establish a legal basis for using users' data to train its chatbot without their consent.

Elon Musk’s X could lose 4% of its global annual turnover for "quietly" training Grok using data from 60 million users in the EU without consent

Austrian advocacy group NOYB, led by prominent privacy activist Max Schrems, has filed a significant complaint against the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The complaint accuses the Elon Musk-owned company of unlawfully utilizing users’ personal data to train its artificial intelligence (AI) systems without obtaining proper consent, in violation of the European Union’s strict privacy regulations.

Austrian Group NOYB Files GDPR Complaint Against X Over AI Data Use

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AMERICANS have the opportunity to claim a one-time payment from a billion-dollar class action settlement. Visa and Mastercard agreed pay $5.6 billion after consumers paid excessive fees to accept their payment cards. The lawsuit alleged that Visa and Mastercard violated the antitrust laws. Antitrust laws also referred to as competition laws, are statutes developed by […]

Americans to receive one-time payment from $5.6 billion Visa Mastercard settlement – and the deadline has been extended

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"They accidentally gave us 2 washers and a dryer when we only ordered 1 of each". Last month, Lowe’s experienced a glitch that lowered the price of its $2,300 Midea jumbo capacity refrigerator to just $169.

‘Lowe’s messed up’: Shopper says they got $2,300 fridge at Lowe’s for just $169

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A class action lawsuit brought against background check company National Public Data (also known as Jerico Pictures) alleges the personal information of 2.9 billion individuals has made its way onto the dark web via a data breach.National Public Data uses a process called ‘scraping’ to collect and store personally identifying data from non-public sources to carry out background checks on billions of people.This means that sensitive information like social security numbers, full names, addresses, relative’s information was exposed - and crucially, it also means the information was not given willingly to the company, and many victims may not know it...

One of the biggest data breaches ever leaks details on billions of users — here's what we know so far

After millions of families throughout the U.S. were left in the dark for months about whether their personal information was stolen in either of the two AT&T data breaches announced this year, staggering numbers of current and former customers are now signing up with lawyers to pursue compensation for a wide range of consequences caused by the massive security failures.

Sign Ups for AT&T Data Breach Lawsuit Highlight Wide Ranging Impacts from Security Failures

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ANGRY customers are demanding compensation after news of AT&T's data breach emerged last week. A lawsuit filed against the Dallas-based telecommunications company last Friday night, July 12, alleges that AT&T was not transparent about the severity of the breach and did not safeguard important customer data. Over 100 million customers...

100 million AT&T customers fight for one-time payment and settlement after breach exposed six months of call logs

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A lawsuit was filed this week against the World Federation of Advertisers and specific companies like Mars and Unilever.

'Now it is war': Elon Musk and Twitter accuse an advertising alliance, which includes EA and Twitch, of conspiring against the platform and breaking US antitrust law

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Hackers used compromised credentials to gain access to sensitive health data from HealthEquity, which administers health savings accounts for patients in the US.

4.3 million people hit in massive healthcare data breach with full names, addresses and SSNs exposed online — what to do now

Google and Meta made a secret deal to target Instagram ads to teenagers on YouTube — breaking the search giant’s own rules against advertising to children. According to a report by the Financial Times, Google worked on a marketing project for Meta that was designed to target 13 to 17-year-old YouTube users with ads that promoted Instagram.

Meta and Google Had ‘Secret Deal’ To Target Ads to Minors

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In 1981, pop-music sensation Andy Gibb was at the top of the charts. The younger brother of Barry, Robin, and Maurice, a.k.a. The Bee Gees, commenced a tumultuous romance with actress Victoria Principle, who played Pam Ewing on Dallas, TV's then-Number 1 prime-time series. But after the relationship ended, Andy's life, already challenged by substance abuse, did as well. This is their tragic story.

The Tragic Death of Pop Star Andy Gibb & His Traumatic Romance with 'Dallas' Star Victoria Principle

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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

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In the last week, at least four class action lawsuits have been filed in response to what has been described as the biggest breach of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) on record. More than 200 gigabytes of nearly 3 billion records containing the PII of an unknown number of “U.S., Canadian, and British citizens” – including Social Security numbers and criminal records – were stolen in a hack of the computer systems of National Public Data, a Florida-based data broker.

Data breach exposes 3 billion PII records, class action suits filed

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Cash App users may be eligible for part of a multimillion-dollar settlement from the company. The payments platform and its parent Block agreed earlier this year to pay $15 million to settle a suit claiming the company had failed to protect customers from data breaches. Now, those users — past...

Block to Pay Cash App Users Up to $2,500 in Data Breach Settlement

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Data breaches happen all the time nowadays, and they usually involve thousands or tens of thousands of people. When more than a million folks are affected, that’s cause for alarm. However, one of the largest breaches in history just happened, and it compromised the data of nearly 3 billion people. Right now, information about this case is still coming out, so you’ll want to stay tuned for updates.

Nearly 3 billion people just had their data leaked!!

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NEW YORK — (AP) — A small brand safety initiative is ceasing operations — days after being targeted by social media platform X in a lawsuit alleging the group helped coordinate a "massive advertiser boycott" after billionaire Elon Musk bought the company in 2022. The World Federation...

World Federation of Advertisers discontinues small brand safety initiative after Elon Musk's X sues

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Elon Musk’s X targeted with nine privacy complaints after grabbing EU users’ data for training Grok

Late last month an eagle-eyed social media user spotted a setting indicating that X had quietly begun processing the post data of regional users to train...

Elon Musk’s X targeted with nine privacy complaints after grabbing EU users’ data for training Grok

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