The lone strong biometric privacy law in the United States has struck again, this time taking $68.5 million from Instagram in a settlement for a class action first filed nearly three years ago.
Underage Instagram users were opting to ignore privacy settings and work around them by opening business accounts, leading to a GDPR fine of €405 Million by the Irish DPC.
Suspected Russian and Turkish attackers accuse account owners of copyright infringement, direct them to phishing pages to compromise accounts before demanding ransom from hacked Instagram account owners to restore access.
