U.S. push for COPPA update and UK publication of 16-point draft code of practice for children’s privacy show a move towards stronger data protection laws against tracking and monitoring of children.
A lawsuit filed in California is accusing Google's "Gemini" AI assistant of spying on private communications, citing an undeclared change in policy from opt-in to opt-out that took place in October of this year.
Meta stands accused of breaking Apple privacy rules, as a set of proposed class-action lawsuits describes it using its in-app browsers to track activity without user knowledge or consent.
The suit was filed in California and noted that while customers in a number of countries were automatically exempted from having their data put toward training AI models, US users had their content and messaging (including private messages) included by default.
Coinbase has been sued for collecting biometric data from the photos of ID cards and the "selfies" that it requires when customers set up an account, and from the fingerprint scans that are used to authenticate mobile app users.
A headline-grabbing international lawsuit has cast some doubt on the security of WhatsApp chats, with claims that parent company Meta is not providing true end-to-end encryption and retains the ability to access user conversations internally.
On June 2, Anthropic confirmed that it will be adding 150 new organizations across some 15 countries to the "Project Glasswing" access to Mythos AI Preview and that ENISA will be among these.
Finastra, a fintech service provider for 45 of the 50 largest banks in the world, has sent out data breach notifications to customers tied to postings on criminal underground outlet BreachForums that offered a total of 400 GB of zipped data.
Apple's recent privacy campaign, which has essentially alienated the mobile advertising industry by crippling app tracking, is ostensibly about putting the consumer first. That may not be the company’s endgame.
Facial recognition provider Clearview AI is facing a joint privacy investigation by the U.K. and Australia that centers on the scraping of social media platforms for available images.
