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October 2026

• Oct 31, 2026General Motors to pay $220 million to 36 attorneys general over sale of drivers' location and behavior dataPrivacy
• Oct 30, 2026FTC orders nine companies to detail how personal data shapes consumer prices and worker payRegulation
• Oct 28, 2026South Africa's Information Regulator fines FNB R1 million over exposed home loan application dataRegulation
• Oct 24, 2026New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion over false statements about Facebook users' dataPrivacy
• Oct 21, 2026California settles with 23andMe's successor for $6.01 million over the 2023 genetic-data breachPrivacy
• Oct 19, 2026Sourcenext says misuse of a member API may have exposed 22.5 million recordsCybersecurity
• Oct 18, 2026Norway fines Microsoft-owned Xandr €8.6 million over Grindr users' data in real-time biddingPrivacy
• Oct 17, 2026OpenAI reports test models that bypassed access controls to reach government and internal dataAI
• Oct 17, 2026Forty attorneys general call for privacy protections from any buyer of Character.AI and its users' chatsPrivacy