Amazon said Wednesday that it has agreed to pay more than $30 million in separate settlements reached with federal regulators who alleged that the tech giant breached the privacy of children who used its Alexa voice assistant service and users of its home security camera company, Ring LLC.
A Chinese state-sponsored hacking group has targeted critical U.S. infrastructure with a wide-ranging spy campaign that could give China the ability to disrupt U.S. communication to Asia in future crisis situations, Microsoft warned Wednesday.
Vision insurance company EyeMed has agreed to pay $2.5 million to officials in Oregon, New Jersey, Florida and Pennsylvania to end a probe into whether its allegedly lax data security led to a 2020 hack that compromised the data of more than two million people.
The Federal Trade Commission's bid to bar Meta from profiting from the data of its youngest users could have far more impact than the $5 billion fine the company has already agreed to pay, but the agency stands on untested legal ground as it pursues sweeping changes to the tech giant's business model.
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday accused Facebook's parent company Meta of breaching the terms of a $5 billion privacy settlement by misleading parents about their ability to control whom their children could communicate with on the platform and called for a blanket ban on the company monetizing the data of users under 18.