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18 stories taggeddata privacy.
AI Coding Tool Was Quietly Uploading Your Entire Codebase to China
Z.ai's ZCode assistant packaged developers' full project histories by default and sent them to Alibaba Cloud servers. The company has disabled the feature, deleted the stored data, and opened its source code for review.
Eight in Ten UK Gambling Sites May Be Breaking Privacy Law, Study Finds
New research suggests most licensed British bookmakers and online casinos collect personal data from visitors before those visitors have agreed to it, putting them at odds with GDPR rules.
Disabled Australians' Private Data May Have Flowed Into Palantir's Systems Through Fraud Investigation Program
Personal records belonging to NDIS participants were potentially shared with the controversial US analytics company as part of a government anti-fraud operation, Guardian Australia has revealed.
ChatGPT is learning to write like you, by reading your Gmail and Slack
OpenAI is testing a 'Writing Style' feature that studies your own messages and documents so the chatbot can mimic your voice. The privacy trade is real.
Who Gets Spirit Airlines' Employee Data? A Bidding War With No Clear Winner
Google paid $10 million at auction for hundreds of millions of Spirit Airlines emails, calls, and files. Then a second bidder appeared. Former employees are going to court to stop any sale at all.
Smart Glasses, Privacy Overhaul, and 43 Missing Australians: Monday's Big Stories
Australia's government unveiled new privacy rules targeting smart glasses while 43 Australians remain unaccounted for after catastrophic flooding in Nepal. Here's what you need to know.
Banning One AI Brand Isn't Enough: Your Model's Family Tree Still Matters
Cisco researchers say that where an AI model is built tells you far less than where it came from. Tracing a model's lineage reveals hidden dependencies and inherited behaviours that a country-of-origin label simply cannot.
Amazon Sued Over Using Twitch Livestreams to Train Its AI Without Streamers' Consent
A class-action lawsuit claims Amazon quietly fed millions of hours of Twitch broadcasts into its artificial intelligence systems before giving creators any chance to say no.
Thirty US States Take Meta to Trial Over Child Safety, Seeking Up to $1 Trillion
A federal jury trial launched this week could force Facebook and Instagram to strip out some of their most addictive features, and cost Meta more money than most countries earn in a year.
California's Delete Act: A New Era for Data Privacy Rights
California's groundbreaking Delete Act platform lets residents erase their data from scores of brokers. Companies must adapt to a new compliance challenge.
USA Fencing's Identity Problem: How a Sports Body Stopped Checking Kids' Ages by Hand
With more than 50,000 members ranging from age eight to eighty, USA Fencing was drowning in paper birth certificates. Here's how it automated the problem away, and why the data questions around children are still worth watching.
US House passes kids' online safety bill, but critics say the cure may be worse than the disease
The KIDS Act cleared the House 267-117 on Monday. It demands new parental controls and bans targeted ads at children, but digital rights groups warn that age-verification rules could quietly strip privacy from every adult online too.
AI Agents Are Breaking the Security Promises of Confidential Computing
A technology built to keep sensitive data locked away is running into a problem it was never designed for: AI assistants that cannot forget what they have read.
Your Bank May Be Sending Your Loan Details to TikTok Without Knowing It
New research finds that tracking tools baked into banking websites are quietly forwarding customers' personal and financial data to advertising platforms, sometimes before anyone clicks 'accept cookies'.
Your Boss Is the Biggest Shadow AI Risk in the Building
New survey data shows senior executives are far more likely than ordinary staff to use unapproved AI tools, and that gap is quietly undermining every security policy their IT teams try to enforce.