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Latest News in Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • May 08, 2026

    EdTech Platform Canvas Accused Of Lax Security After Breach

    The operator of Canvas, a popular educational software tool used by thousands of schools and universities, is facing more than a half-dozen proposed class actions filed in Utah and New York federal courts following its disclosure of a cyberattack tied to a hacking group that's claimed to have gained access to personal data belonging to more than 275 million students and teachers.

  • May 08, 2026

    OCC Says AI Presents A Double-Edged Sword To Banks

    Artificial intelligence is "significantly transforming" the cybersecurity threat landscape for banks while also presenting opportunities to help defend against those heightened risks, according to a new report from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

  • May 08, 2026

    Social Media Litigation Gains Reveal Potential Regulatory Path

    Recent suits by a social media user and two state attorneys general in their bids to hold Meta and other tech giants accountable for the allegedly addictive nature of their platforms have brought to the forefront a potentially lucrative strategy for more broadly regulating online harms, as the First Amendment and other roadblocks continue to stymie legislative efforts.

  • May 08, 2026

    Social Media Harm To Teens Can Be Pinpointed, Judge Told

    Social media's degree of blame for New Mexico teens' mental health challenges can be statistically isolated and quantified, a health computational scientist testified Friday in the state's $3.7 billion bench trial against Meta.

  • May 08, 2026

    Calif. Hits GM With Record $12.75M Data Privacy Penalty

    General Motors has agreed to pay $12.75 million — the largest penalty imposed to date under California's data privacy law — and halt its sale of geolocation and driver behavior data to consumer reporting agencies to resolve claims that it illegally kept and handed off this information to a pair of data brokers, California's attorney general and several other state enforcers announced Friday.

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