GM to pay over $12 million in California privacy settlement involving driver data
2026-05-11T02:51:58Z•09e9305a8ddd08b2be8b798c68f3a28b4a2bd6269e8d59bbbd0a79d0b0d38782
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A set of related cyber and privacy developments: GM agreed to pay over $12 million in a California CCPA settlement — the largest fine under the law to date — over driver data concerns. In criminal enforcement, the administrator of darknet marketplace Kingdom Market was sentenced to 16 years after pleading guilty to running the platform, and a Virginia man was convicted for deleting 96 government databases and stealing credentials that enabled email access. Operational incidents include a disruptive cyber event on the Canvas learning platform that forced universities to reschedule finals, and K
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