GM to pay over $12 million in California privacy settlement involving driver data

2026-05-11T08:52:00Z8573c27eaf596138c874696e282350d5026cde43b513f310bb65a2cc80cb18e2
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A set of recent cyber and privacy developments: GM agreed to pay over $12 million in California — the largest penalty under the CCPA — over driver data privacy violations; Alan Bill, administrator of the Kingdom Market darknet marketplace, received a 16-year sentence for facilitating drug and cybercriminal activity; a Virginia man was convicted for deleting 96 government databases and stealing credentials to access an email account; multiple universities had to reschedule final exams after a cyber incident affecting Canvas (Instructure) that displayed a cybercriminal message; and Kaspersky rel

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