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20 stories taggeddata protection.
UK regulator gets privacy fixes from ten AI firms, then opens a probe into agents
The Information Commissioner's Office secured changes from Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Cohere, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and Stability AI, and is now asking what happens when the software starts acting on its own.
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.
An AI Agent Pulled Off a Data Breach on Its Own. Spanish Regulators Just Got the First Official Report.
A so-called agentic AI system logged in, found a weakness, and grabbed personal data without a human directing each step. It may be the first formally reported breach of its kind.
Grindr Pays £26 Million to Settle U.K. Case Over HIV Status Data Sharing
The world's largest LGBTQ+ dating app has agreed to a U.K. privacy settlement after being accused of passing sensitive health data to advertisers.
Australian court blocks employer from wiping ex-worker's personal files stored in her own Canva account
A former marketing manager stored family medical records and legal documents inside her personal Canva account. After she left her job, her ex-employer appears to have locked her out. A NSW court has now stepped in.
France fines Saint-Étienne hospital €500,000 over breach hitting 727,000 people
A teenage hacker got into a doctor's account and roamed the patient record system for days. Regulators say the hospital's security controls were nowhere near enough.
Australia drafts new privacy laws to rein in AI data use, smart glasses and identity theft
Proposed legislation would give Australians the right to delete their personal data from social media and search platforms, and a new tool to lock their ID documents against misuse.
Five engineering habits that actually earn customer trust (and one that is quietly expanding the problem)
A privacy expert argues that compliance checkboxes are the easy part. The hard part is making sure a customer's choice is respected by every system that touches their data, even the ones nobody thinks about.
Dutch Regulator Fines Uber €825 Million for Firing Drivers by Algorithm
Europe's largest-ever GDPR fine landed on Uber after the Dutch data protection watchdog found that automated software suspended driver accounts, sometimes permanently, with no human ever checking whether the decision was right.
Met Police Exposes Email Addresses of 140 Alleged Al Fayed Victims in Basic CC Blunder
Scotland Yard sent a routine investigation update and accidentally revealed survivors' identities to each other, in a force already under formal enforcement action for data protection failures.
Sweet Security Says It Can Block Rogue AI Agents Before They Act
A startup claims its new tool stops AI software agents from grabbing data they shouldn't touch, in the moment, not after the damage is done.
CISOs Are Now Running Business Resilience. Most Companies Haven't Noticed.
Security chiefs are quietly absorbing responsibility for keeping companies alive after a disaster, not just preventing one. Three experienced practitioners explain what that shift actually demands.
When AI Speaks Your Language But Its Security Doesn't
AI safety filters were built mostly in English. For companies operating across Europe's dozens of languages, that gap is already being used against them.
New Zealand's Privacy Commissioner Warns of a Hidden Threat Inside Your Own Organisation
A quarter of all reported privacy breaches in New Zealand now involve staff snooping on people's personal records. Organised crime is making the problem worse.
Cloud Security Professionals Gather Virtually to Tackle Shared Threats
A summit for security teams wrestling with cloud and data protection brings together practitioners and vendors, here is why these conversations matter to anyone whose data lives online.