Most Popular Data Privacy Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Data Privacy Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Texas Accuses Allstate-Owned Arity of Data Privacy Violations
Dec 13 2024 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a notice of violation against Allstate-owned Arity, a mobile data company that collects drivers’ information, for breaching the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act...
#2 Wearable Sensors Can Predict Overheating but Is There Privacy Risk?
Aug 28 2024 // On a hot summer day in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, dozens of men removed pipes, asbestos and hazardous waste while working to decontaminate a nuclear facility and prepare it for demolition. Dressed in head-to-toe coveralls and...
#3 Modern Cars Are Surveillance Devices on Wheels With Major Privacy Risks: Report
Nov 20 2024 // New research reveals serious privacy flaws in the data practices of new internet connected cars in Australia. It’s yet another reason why we need urgent reform of privacy laws. Modern cars are increasingly equipped...
#4 California Bill Seeks to Beef up Consumer Privacy Protections for Insurance
Apr 10 2025 // A new bill introduced in California aims to increase transparency and accountability in California’s insurance market by bolstering consumer privacy protections and establishing a privacy rights framework for...
#5 TikTok Sued by US for Allegedly Breaking Kids’ Privacy Law
Aug 5 2024 // TikTok was sued by the US for allegedly collecting data on children in violation of an online privacy act, three months after the popular video app sued the government over a law that could ban it across the country. In a...
#6 Viewpoint: California’s Latest Insurance Privacy Bill Would Add Layer of Regulation
Apr 23 2025 // California lawmakers are once again turning their attention to consumer privacy—this time with a laser focus on the insurance sector. At a moment when insurance companies are already navigating a minefield of data...
#7 Data Privacy, Human Trafficking Risks on the Rise
May 20 2024 // The world can at times feel smaller and more connected than ever before. And though there are many tangible benefits to such intermingling of markets, people and products, potential risks nevertheless remain. With greater...
#8 Vermont Governor Vetoes Data Privacy Bill As Too Hostile to Business, Nonprofits
Jun 17 2024 // Vermont’s governor has vetoed a broad data privacy bill that would have been one of the strongest in the country to crack down on companies’ use of online personal data by letting consumers file civil lawsuits...
#9 Facial Recognition Startup Clearview AI Settles Privacy Suit for $50M
Jun 24 2024 // CHICAGO (AP) — Facial recognition startup Clearview AI reached a settlement Friday in an Illinois lawsuit alleging its massive photographic collection of faces violated the subjects’ privacy rights, a deal that...
#10 Western Digital Owes $315.7M for Infringing Data Security Patent, Jury Says
Oct 21 2024 // Data storage provider Western Digital must pay $315.7 million in damages for violating a patent owner’s rights in data security technology, a jury in California federal court said on Friday. The jury determined that...
#11 Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act Now in Effect
Jan 7 2025 // The Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act, passed in 2023, went into effect at the beginning of this new year, granting Delawareans new personal data privacy rights. “Businesses collect Delawareans’ personal data...
#12 Maryland Governor Signs Online Data Privacy, Child Protection Bills
May 13 2024 // Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed two measures into law on Thursday that are aimed at better protecting personal data online from Big Tech, including a bill making Maryland the second state to try to create strong limits on...
#13 Shopify Must Face Data Privacy Lawsuit in US
Apr 22 2025 // A U.S. appeals court on Monday revived a proposed data privacy class action against Shopify, a decision that could make it easier for American courts to assert jurisdiction over internet-based platforms. In a 10-1...
#14 FTC Concerned About Privacy Protections in 23andMe Bankruptcy
Mar 31 2025 // The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is concerned about the potential sale or transfer of Americans’ personal information by 23andMe ancestry testing company which recently filed for bankruptcy, the agency’s...
