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‘UK government demands backdoor access to encrypted data on Apple devices’
The government of the United Kingdom has secretly ordered Apple to create a backdoor that could be used to access users’ end-to-end encrypted backups and other data that is stored on Apple devices.
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DeepSeek being blocked in more countries due to security concerns
Italy was the first country to ban the AI chatbot of Chinese startup DeepSeek. More countries are now following suit.
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French real estate company fined for disproportionately monitoring its employees
The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) has imposed a fine of €40,000 on a French real estate company for excessively supervising its employees.
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Signal CEO: ‘More awareness for privacy, but extremely weak enforcement in practice’
Meredith Whittaker, President of the Signal Foundation, is not happy about the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). “There is more awareness and there are more laws. But if you look at the GDPR, you see mostly strong language in the law and extremely weak enforcement in practice.”
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Grubhub discloses data breach, customers’ personal information leaked
Grubhub has revealed that a data breach has occurred. The American food ordering and delivery company is confident that the incident has been fully contained.
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OpenAI and SoftBank announce partnership to develop AI agents for Japanese companies
OpenAI and the SoftBank Group are going to team up in order to develop AI agents in a way that is customized specifically for each company.
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Microsoft says goodbye to free VPN in Microsoft 365 subscriptions
As of February 28th, people with a Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscription will have to manage their online privacy without the company’s free VPN service.
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Google asks court to overturn verdict against Epic Games
Google is trying to undo a jury verdict and a judge’s order forcing the tech company to remodel its Play Store.
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OpenAI introduces AI agent Deep Research
OpenAI has announced a new AI agent designed to help companies and organizations to conduct in-depth multi-step research on the internet called Deep Research.
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UK to adopt new laws that prohibit the creation of CSAM with AI
The UK government has announced four new laws that will tackle the creation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) with artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
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DPAs launch investigations into DeepSeek
Privacy regulators from Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and South Korea have requested information from DeepSeek about what information the company collects and processes.
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LinkedIn lawsuit over sharing private messages for training AI models dismissed
The class-action lawsuit against LinkedIn for sharing the contents of private messages with third parties to train AI models has been dismissed.
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Court: ‘Irish DPA must investigate Noyb complaint’
The General Court has ruled that the Data Protection Commission (DPC), the data protection authority (DPA) from Ireland, must launch an investigation into a complaint that was filed by Noyb years ago.
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DeepSeek might have unlawfully used OpenAI’s data to train its R1 model
Microsoft and OpenAI are currently investigating whether their Chinese competitor DeepSeek might have used OpenAI’s models to train its own chatbot.
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MGM Resorts agrees to settle data breaches for $45M
MGM Resorts International has agreed to financially compensate victims of a data breach in 2019 and a ransomware attack in 2023 for a total of $45 million.
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Italian DPA: ‘data of millions of Italians at risk because of DeepSeek’
Many praise the potential of DeepSeek; the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali (GPDP) is concerned that the newest AI chatbot may pose a risk for millions of Italians.
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Google asks court to annul EU antitrust fine of €4.1 billion
Google has objected to a €4.1 billion fine at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), asking the judges to annul the decision.
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CNIL: ‘Data breaches are often caused by recurring security flaws’
Most data breaches occur because attackers follow similar operating procedures and exploit the same security flaws.
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Noyb: ‘Strict GDPR enforcement only exists on paper’
When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in May 2018, Brussels promised us a new era of data protection. Truth is that data protection authorities (DPAs) are highly inefficient and hardly impose fines on companies that violate our privacy.
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TalkTalk investigating data breach at third-party supplier
UK telecommunications company TalkTalk is looking into a data breach at a third-party supplier after a threat actor posted a message on the dark web.
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