Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert to remind Californians that they can send one ...

Large-scale data breaches and privacy violations have become a common occurrence over the past decade amid the vast collection of personal information online. In response, a plethora of data ...

June 26, 2025 - The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is clear that data subjects are not entitled to compensation unless they can demonstrate that the processing of their personal data ...

Data protection vendors are using AI alongside other technologies to identify threats, automate governance and maintain compliance for enterprise customers. In 2024, data protection software stayed ...

Your car knows where and when you drive, even that song you won't admit you love.

As agentic AI rapidly expands, proper guardrails — particularly around purpose and data minimization — are necessary to ...

An adviser to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Thursday backed WhatsApp in its legal battle with the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), suggesting the media company’s challenge ...

There’s a saying in Texas: “All hat and no cattle.” It means all talk and no action. That idiom does not apply to the folks within the Consumer Protection Division of the Texas attorney general’s ...

The Data Protection Agency (DPA) of the Netherlands fined Uber 290 million euros on Monday for violating the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by storing the personal data of European taxi ...