The UN cybercrime treaty is meeting with some pushback from both the tech industry and human rights activists. Privacy and human rights organizations, to include the UN's own High Commissioner for Human Rights, have aired concerns that the treaty's definitions of crimes are too vague and open to potential abuse.
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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.
An internal memo sent to Meta risk division workers on October 29 by Protti outlined the company's intention to lay off hundreds of privacy compliance staff, as part of cost-cutting measures that shift more duties from humans to AI.
Google issued an explanatory series of posts on X outlining that there were no new passwords stolen, and that any legitimate credentials came from an assortment of prior data breaches stretching back years that have been circulating on underground forums. Much of the collection was built via infostealer malware.
The new CSC report warns that national cyber defense is "stalling" in most areas and "slipping" in some. Its central point of criticism is that only 35% of 82 recommendations that the commission made in 2020 have been fully implemented, with about 13% still facing barriers to progress and another 18% making progress but still distant from actual implementation.
Credit rating agency Experian's Netherlands branch has been assessed a €2.7 million (about $3.2 million) GDPR fine for improper collection of personal data, which was drawn from multiple public and private sources that data subjects were not necessarily aware of.
RIP Google Privacy Sandbox: “Cookie Replacement” Project Officially Terminated Due to “Low Adoption”
Google's blog post on the subject simply announced that the 10 remaining available Privacy Sandbox APIs and tools were being deprecated, but follow-up questioning by various tech media sources produced statements confirming that it is all over for the project.
The AWS outage that caused widespread global disruption for about half of Monday has officially been resolved, but numerous lingering issues remain that could take days or even weeks to fully resolve.
F5 has disclosed that an August breach exposed source code and customer data to what it calls "nation-state hackers." The company has not made an official attribution, but third-party security researcher sources are linking the attack to China's UNC5221.
The 2025 UK report is composed of 1,727 tips on cyber incidents over the course of the year that developed into a total of 429 cases that involved intervention by the NCSC IM team. The share of incidents ranked as "nationally significant" jumped from 89 in the prior year to 204 in the current one.
The endgame for AI chatbots was always integration of targeted ads, but Meta plans to do more than make Meta AI just another arm of its internet-spanning data collection network. The plan is for the chatbot to eventually function as a shopping assistant that can search for products and put them into shopping carts.










