The EU's "Chat Control" proposal to scan encrypted messages for CSAM is back, with new revisions and growing support.
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Microsoft has published a detailed guidance post about the recent Nation Public Data breach that leaked Social Security Numbers, house addresses, and more, of millions.
An advertising partner of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon admitted that your smartphones and other devices can listen to everything you say for ad targeting.
OpenAI released ChatGPT for macOS, allowing users to interact with the AI chatbot directly from their mac. However, a security flaw was discovered where user conversations were stored in plain text.
Twitter has confirmed that a security breach caused Twitter Circle tweets to be accessible to everyone. Meant for a select group of people, Circle tweets were viewable to everyone for almost a month.
Healthcare startup Cerebral announced this week that it shared the sensitive data of more than 3.1 million users in the U.S. with advertisers and social media companies like Meta, Google, and TikTok.
With the action under its Health Breach Notification Rule being enforced for the first time, the FTC has penalized GoodRx with a $1.5M fine. The proposed order is yet to be approved by federal court.
The Dutch DPA has concluded that Microsoft breaches the Dutch data protection law with Windows 10. Apparently, the tech giant has not made clear the purpose of the data it retrieves from its users.
About 3.2 million debit card details have been stolen by attackers using malware on payment systems in India. Some banks have already blocked the cards, while others have asked users to change PINs.