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Disney will pay $10 million to settle children’s data privacy lawsuit
Disney has agreed to pay a $10 million civil penalty to settle claims that it violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act by mislabeling videos and allowing data collection for targeted advertising. “The Justice Department is firmly devoted to ensuring parents have a say in how their children’s information is collected and used,” said Assistant Attorney […]
Disney to pay $10M to settle claims it collected kids’ data on YouTube
Disney will pay $10 million to settle claims by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it mislabeled videos for children on YouTube, which allowed the collection of kids’ personal information without their consent or notification to their parents. This occurred after the entertainment giant failed to tag kid-directed videos on YouTube as “Made for Kids” […]
Hacker ‘NullBulge’ pleads guilty to stealing Disney’s Slack data
A California man who used the alias “NullBulge” has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing Disney‘s internal Slack channels and stealing over 1.1 terabytes of internal company data. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a 25-year-old named Ryan Kramer created a malicious program in early 2024 that was promoted as an AI image generation tool on […]
Disney ditching Slack after massive July data breach
The Walt Disney Company is reportedly ditching Slack after a July data breach exposed over 1TB of confidential messages and files posted to the company’s internal communication channels. According to CNBC, Disney has already begun migrating to new “streamlined enterprise-wide collaboration tools” and emailed employees this week to say that they will finish the migration at the end […]