New Mexico’s $25 Billion Meta Fine Tests Statutory Math

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A New Mexico state court ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for misleading statements about data privacy between 2010 and 2021, raising questions about how per-violation penalties scale against Big Tech revenue.

Denmark CPR Breach: When Authorized Access Becomes the Threat

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In October 2026, Denmark disclosed that 8.8 million CPR records had been accessed through a legitimate company account. The password was “123456,” but the real vulnerability was structural: third-party access with no rate limiting or monitoring that could detect abuse in real time.

Court Blocks Utah VPN Law After Finding Technical Impossibility

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A federal court blocked a provision of Utah’s age-verification law that required websites to determine users’ physical locations even when masked by VPNs, finding the statute demanded a technical impossibility.