Elon Musk followed the privacy policy update with a statement affirming that X's machine learning and AI models would not be trained with private and confidential information, such as direct messages.
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Scott Ikeda is a technology futurist and writer for more than 15 years. He travels extensively throughout Asia and writes about the impact of technology on the communities he visits. Over the last 5 years, Scott has grown increasingly focused on the future landscape of big data, surveillance, cybersecurity and the right to privacy.
Microsoft has traced the signing key theft back to a "crash dump" error. A breach of a Microsoft engineer's work account by the Chinese hackers then yielded access to the crash dump and the embedded signing key.
UK military contractor confirmed that some information about military bases was stolen in the data breach, but insists that none of it was confidential or highly sensitive. Attackers apparently compromised a computer running manufacturing machine software that was still outfitted with Windows 7.
A complaint in Poland alleges GDPR violations by ChatGPT in the areas of lawful basis for data processing, data access, fairness, transparency and personal privacy.
GDPR complaint points out that Fitbit forces EU users to accept international data transfers as a requirement to use the service, something that may not meet regulatory standards for free and informed consent.
A long-term breach of Japan's national cyber security agency may be the work of state-backed Chinese hackers. The security breach occurred in October 2022 and was disclosed in August of this year.
The infrastructure for the Qakbot malware botnet that has been a plague since 2007 has been dismantled by an FBI-led law enforcement action. The botnet was composed of over 700,000 infected computers, and is responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages worldwide during its run.
Kroll reports that the data breach was traced to a SIM swap attack on the phone of one of its employees, and that "limited" and "non-sensitive" claimant data was exposed. FTX account holders are already receiving phishing emails.
A new report from ad evaluation firm Adalytics finds that some of YouTube’s targeted ads are still slipping through the cracks, and potentially violating federal child privacy law. The revelation has prompted two US Senators to write a letter to the FTC.
Two web hosting providers in Denmark are teetering on the brink after a devastating ransomware attack that wiped out most customer data. Given the ongoing difficulty of recovery, the companies are recommending that customers move to other hosting providers.
