California fines national high school ticketing platform $1.1 million for privacy violations
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What happened
A batch of security and tech policy stories: California’s privacy regulator fined high-school ticketing platform PlayOn Sports $1.1M under the CPPA for collecting students’ personal data and delivering targeted ads via tracking tech without an adequate opt-out; LexisNexis reported a contained breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen ~2 GB of legacy data including millions of records; Google urged the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down geofence/location warrants as unconstitutional, saying it has objected to over 3,000 such warrants recently; a Global Coalition on Telecoms (GCOT) of US
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