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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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US wants to ban TP-Link routers due to risk of cyberespionage
United States government officials are worried that TP-Link routers could be used to launch attacks on the US infrastructure.
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Former IT employee forces British Museum to partially close its doors
The British Museum in London was forced to partially close its doors last weekend after a former employee tempered with its IT infrastructure.
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Meta plans to invest $65B in expanding its AI infrastructure
Meta is planning to spend between $60 and $65 billion this year in the United States to enlarge its artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.
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Former Disney employee pleads guilty to conducting series of cyber intrusions
39 year old Michael Scheuer, who used to work at Walt Disney World, has pleaded guilty to hacking into his former employer’s menu system after he was fired last year and changing allergy information.
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PayPal fined for $2 million for exposing social security numbers
New York state’s Department of Financial Services has ordered PayPal to pay a $2 million fine for the exposure of customers’ social security numbers due to faulty cybersecurity measures.
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BEUC: ‘Meta’s revised ‘pay or okay’ policy still ignores fundamental problems’
The Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs (BEUC) isn’t happy with Meta’s revised ‘pay or okay’ business model, because it still doesn’t offer a fair choice for European Facebook and Instagram users that complies with EU law.
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US private sector announces $500 billion investment in AI infrastructure
Numerous American tech companies are going to invest $500 billion over the next four years, building new artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in the United States.
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President Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht
On his second day in office, president Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, founder of one of the largest illicit marketplaces on the dark web Silk Road.
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Cloudflare mitigated record-breaking DDoS attack of 5.6 Tbps
Cloudflare’s DDoS defense systems successfully detected and blocked a 5.6 Terabits per second (Tbps) DDoS attack.
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