FTC warns 12 major tech firms of violating Take It Down Act
2026-05-21T02:51:53Z•19b56313c9194e187fb0af49f87e1500068585089d7747e3cdd98f33e3f24367
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What happened
A set of security and privacy incidents and regulatory actions: the U.S. FTC warned 12 major tech firms they may be violating the Take It Down Act, which requires easy takedown requests and deletion of nonconsensual intimate images within 48 hours; Ukrainian authorities are probing a teen suspected of running a cyber-theft scheme that targeted California online shoppers after U.S. notification; Discord is moving all users to end-to-end encryption by default while some other platforms are removing E2EE; 7-Eleven confirmed a data breach tied to ShinyHunters affecting systems storing franchisee/
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