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Security News Update for May 17, 2026
This week’s news includes:
- GM Pays Largest Ever California Privacy Settlement
- Home Depot Installs Flock Surveillance Cameras
- AI Leads to False Arrests and Even Convictions
- Amazon Workers Are Maximizing Use of AI – But Only in Reports
- ChatGPT Usage at all-time-low as QuitGPT Dents Popularity
- Europe Continues to Push Away from American Tech – Munich Ditches Windows
- Apple Begins to Realize that Their Customers Might Want to Talk to Non-Apple Users
- The Geniuses at the FTC Realize that Blocking Patches to Millions of Consumer Routers is NOT Good Security
- Canadian Bill to Force Tech Companies to Install Surveillance Backdoors Moves Forward
- Former L3Harris Exec Who Sold Hacking Tools to the Russians to pay $10 Mil
- Texas sues Netflix Over Data Surveillance Practices
- Canvas LMS Breach Impacts 275 Million Students – FOLLOW UP
- Cushman & Wakefield Hit by ShinyHunters – Leaked 50 GB of Data
- TECHNICAL DEBT- It is coming home to roost
- Does your insurance cover your AI processes?
- Industry trying to fill gap left by CISA meltdown
- Security News for the week ending May 15, 2026: EU continues its purge of US tech companies, WHEN China’s AI catches up to Mythos, smart move by the Secret Service, Musk caves. Again. And, Mythos AI destroyed 5 years of Apple security in a week