GM to pay over $12 million in California privacy settlement involving driver data
2026-05-09T02:51:58Z•6c644cad29e379dbef79467266ba4d5d8922374b19b524472d34eeffb5579b1a
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A batch of security and cybercrime developments: GM agreed to a record-setting California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) settlement of over $12 million related to driver data — the largest CCPA fine to date. Slovakian national Alan Bill received a 16-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to running Kingdom Market, a darknet platform used for drug distribution and cybercriminal activity from March 2021 to December 2023. A Virginia man was convicted for deleting 96 government databases and stealing an individual’s password, enabling unauthorized email access. Multiple universities were forced—
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