Up to 87 million Facebook accounts had user data inappropriately accessed during the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which a weakness in the platform's API was used to harvest protected profile and activity information.
App developers have in the past criticized Apple for not applying its series of new privacy rules to itself in an even manner. The company now faces an antitrust probe in Italy saying that the system was unfair to third party developers.
A mid-March data breach at Australian financial service provider Latitude was initially estimated as impacting a little over a quarter of a million of its customers. Latitude now says that 14 million records were exposed, including passport numbers.
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.
While cybersecurity practitioners have uncovered many ways that the predictive technology can benefit security teams, threat actors have also been swift to adopt generative AI as the newest tool in their arsenals for launching sophisticated attacks.
Fujitsu is investigating a cyber attack that potentially leaked sensitive personal information after its work computers were infected by malware.
U.S. legal professional organization, the American Bar Association (ABA), has notified over 1.4 million members that a recent data breach exposed user credentials.
Big Tech companies have been making billions of dollars from data monetization, it’s time for them to disclose to users how much their data is worth with the proposed DASHBOARD Act.
Account information of over 2.6 million Duolingo users was obtained via data scraping of an exposed API, and recently leaked on an underground hacking forum.
Use of 'pandemic drones' to enforce social distancing has come under fire over concerns of possible privacy violations. The police surveillance drones would yell at people not observing the rules and also have sensors to detect health conditions.
