Final adoption of the EU AI law is expected to be a formality at this point, but is not slated to take place until April 2024. From there, individual components of the regulation go into effect anywhere from 6 to 36 months from that date.
Nikkei, the world’s largest business news outlet, which owns over 40 affiliates, including The Financial Times, and has more than 3.7 million paid subscribers and over 1.7 million daily readers, has confirmed a data breach that leaked personal information after threat actors compromised its Slack accounts.
Google Maps location history has been used to map out community activity in every country in Google's newly released COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports.
Norfund, the sovereign wealth fund of Norway, has lost over $10 million to BEC scam and it appears that the scammers had spent months inside the networks leading to the fraud.
Top 30 travel apps were found not to meet basic security and privacy standards in a recent study. Should users take the risks for great travel deals and savings in money?
Under a month into the project, privacy concerns have already caused Worldcoin to be banned by some countries and targeted for regulation in others. The central issue is its collection of biometric data, as it promises "free money" in return for capturing iris scans.
Is federal privacy law the answer to the concerns raised by privacy advocates on the potentially invasive coronavirus data collected for public health reasons?
The secret meeting took place in Geneva in December 2024. The source says that the remarks were "indirect" and "somewhat ambiguous," but were enough to implicate Volt Typhoon and the Chinese government in the cyber attacks that have plagued US critical infrastructure.
Senator Ron Wyden says both Apple and Google are complying with foreign government requests for data from push notifications which can facilitate government surveillance by disclosing apps that the user has installed, the Google or Apple account they use with the phone, and potentially even the text displayed in the notification (if it is not encrypted).
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced that it will be investigating X's use of the platform's posts, replies and user information as AI training data for its embedded "Grok" feature.
