California fines national high school ticketing platform $1.1 million for privacy violations

2026-03-04T22:46:54Zade8a623f33075333d4c843f25cac326ac046fe339cb1b487ccaa357351255ff
6GCPPAGCOTLexisNexisMicrosoft labelsPlayOn SportsSupreme Courtcriminal sentencingdata breachgeofence warrantsgeolocationminors dataprivacysoftware fraudtargeted advertisingtelecoms securitytracking technologies

What happened

A set of security and privacy news items: California’s CPPA fined high‑school ticketing platform PlayOn Sports $1.1M, alleging it tracked students and served targeted ads without an adequate opt‑out. LexisNexis reported a contained breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen ~2 GB of legacy data containing millions of records. Google filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down geofence/geolocation warrants as unconstitutional, noting it has contested over 3,000 such warrants. Western allies launched the Global Coalition on Telecoms (GCOT) to publish voluntary 6G‑s

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