Gemini Can Now Manage Your Photo Library. The Safeguards Cover What It Writes.
Edits work on a copy and new albums start private, both sensible. Neither describes what the agent reads, and search and...
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Trezor's Breach Reached 81,000 Because Its Shipping Vendor Kept Data It Promised to Delete
The 67,000 records added are orders from 2019 to 2021, held by a shipping provider that gave written assurances of delet...
The Thomson Reuters C-Track Breach May Include Sealed Court Records
Files left C-Track in March, were found on 30 June and disclosed on 3 September. The remedy offered is credit monitoring...
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500,000 New ID Documents a Day Is Not a Historical Breach
A dark-web service advertised documents from an identity verification firm and claimed half a million new ones daily. Tw...
Norway's Minister Described a Use Rule. The Coverage Called It a Ban.
Karianne Tung says the aim is to stop the equipment being used to monitor people in public. That describes a conduct rul...
A Question a Minute Across 225 Agencies Is Six Each Per Day
The company says the tool answers a question every minute and that officers at 225 agencies rely on it daily. Those two...
Roblox May Check Filipino Ages Against the National ID System
Facial estimation, document checks and national ID verification are being discussed as though they were the same measure...
41% of Britons Say They Would Hold Back Criticism of Officials
Polling for the Center for Democracy and Technology finds two thirds of British adults would not trust any government wi...
Strong Opposition to Licence Plate Cameras Went From 20% to 31% in a Year
The crossing from support to opposition is the reported result. The number that actually moved is strongly oppose, which...
Brazil Fined TikTok $30m. The Deletion Order Is the Expensive Part.
The regulator found processing without a legal basis across guest sessions as well as logged-in accounts, and ordered er...
The Dangerous Part of the UK Airports Breach Is Not 8.7 Million
Most of what was taken from Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands is wifi sign-up email. The parking and lounge records...
Ring's New Default Encryption Is Not End-to-End, by Design
TAKE deletes Ring's copy of your video keys after 24 hours. Ring's own whitepaper describes the app returning a key when...
Eighty Actors Want to Own Their Voices, and the Victims Are Not Actors
Save Our Voices Now asks for voice as a statutory right, like a name or likeness. The 28 per cent of UK adults targeted...
Slovakia's Under-16 Ban Has a Second Half Nobody Is Reporting
For 16 to 18-year-olds the bill mandates private profiles, disabled location sharing and contact restrictions by default...
A Third of Meta's $16.7bn Youth Safety Settlement Depends on TikTok
Meta has ended the multistate youth safety trial with a settlement worth up to $16.7bn, agreeing to daily time limits an...
The Meta Trial in Oakland Has a Jury, but the Judge Decides
Twenty-nine states brought it, four are arguing it, and the jury's verdict is advisory — Judge Gonzalez Rogers writes th...
AliExpress Fingerprinted Devices With Silent Audio, and It Is Not Ultrasound
The script builds a Web Audio graph at zero gain and measures how the machine handles it. Nothing leaves the speakers. M...
The French Education Breach Is Being Counted in Lines, Not People
A seller advertises 346 million records from France's school systems. His own deduplicated figures are 4.35 million staf...
ChatGPT Can Now Read Your iMessages, And It Needs Full Disk Access To Do It
OpenAI's Apple Messages plugin reads, searches, summarises and sends across iMessage, SMS and RCS on Apple silicon Macs....
Malaysia's Under-16 Rules Let Platforms Check Your Age Without Ever Seeing Your ID
Age verification has been in force since 1 June for platforms above eight million users, with penalties to RM10m. MyDigi...
Korea's AI Law Has Been In Force Seven Months. The Maximum Fine Is About US$20,000.
The AI Basic Act and its Enforcement Decree took effect on 22 January. Penalties cap at ₩30m, are suspended for a year e...
An Extortion Group Claimed 25 Million Records. 218,000 Appeared.
ShinyHunters listed Alcon on 2 August alleging more than 25 million Salesforce records. The data later published held 21...
Germany Made Apple Redesign The Tracking Prompt It Wrote For Rivals
The Bundeskartellamt closed a four-year case after Apple agreed to align its own consent prompts with the ones third-par...
A Data Broker Wanted Your SSN Before It Would Stop Selling Your Data
California fined LocateSmarter US$116,490 for demanding unnecessary personal information to process an opt-out. The fine...
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