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Privacy
Meta has agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement with Texas in a privacy lawsuit over a facial recognition feature.
Artificial Intelligence
Brazil’s national data protection authority has determined that Meta cannot use data originating in the country to train its artificial intelligence.
Privacy
The EFF has issued a warning over the use of automated license plate readers following the discovery of serious vulnerabilities.
Privacy
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI has reached a settlement in an Illinois lawsuit alleging its massive photographic collection of faces violated the subjects’ privacy...
Privacy
The Supreme Court will take up Meta’s bid to end the lawsuit over the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.
Artificial Intelligence
Slack reveals it has been training AI/ML models on customer data, including messages, files and usage information. It's opt-in by default.
Privacy & Compliance
Vermont legislature passed a bill that prohibits the sale of sensitive data, such as social security and drivers’ license numbers, financial or health information.
Privacy
BetterHelp customers have started receiving refund notices from a $7.8 million data privacy settlement, the FTC says.
Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft provides an easy and logical first step into GenAI for many organizations, but beware of the pitfalls.
Data Breaches
US healthcare giant is warning millions of current and former patients that their personal information was exposed to third-party advertisers.
Privacy & Compliance
Key Lawmakers Float New Rules for Personal Data Protection; Bill Would Make Privacy a Consumer Right
The American Privacy Rights Act would preempt most state privacy laws — though it wouldn’t impact certain states’ laws already on the books that...
Privacy
Incognito modes generally do not prevent the websites you visit from seeing your location, via your IP address, or stop your internet service provider...
Privacy & Compliance
The House passed legislation that would ban TikTok if its China-based owner ByteDance doesn’t sell its stakes in the popular social media platform within...
Privacy
Amazon-owned Ring will stop allowing police to request doorbell camera footage from users following criticism from privacy advocates.
Privacy
France's data protection watchdog fines Yahoo 10 million euros for not respecting users' refusals of internet-tracking "cookies"
IoT Security
Some IoT products may make your life easier, but they also may be somewhat of a Trojan Horse.
Privacy
The FTC has proposed strengthening children’s online privacy rules to address tracking and push notifications.
Privacy
European privacy officials have widened a ban on Meta’s “behavioral advertising” practices to most of Europe.
Data Protection
New capability detects attacks on iMessage servers and allows users to verify a conversation partner’s identity.
Cybercrime
The FBI has officially pinned the $6 billion Binance hack on North Korea’s TraderTraitor as the attackers launder the stolen crypto.
Malware & Threats
Vulnerabilities
Funding/M&A
Significant cybersecurity deals were announced by Absolute Security, Aikido, Anthropic, Cohere, Hex-Rays, and Proofpoint.
Data Breaches
Cloud Security
