Home Depot gave personal data to Meta without valid customer consent: watchdog
Retailer Home Depot shared details from electronic receipts with…
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A Network of Knockoff Apparel Stores Exposed 330,000 Customer Credit Cards
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: If you recently made a purchase from an overseas online store selling knockoff clothes and goods, there’s a chance your credit card number and personal information were exposed. Since January 6, a da…
Why your data is more valuable than you may realize
The data trail you leave behind whenever you’re online is bigger – and more revealing – than you may think
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Dating app background and ID checks being considered in bid to fight abuse
National roundtable mulls safety strategies as communications minister says ‘no one law is going to fix this issue’Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBackgr…
Most consumers would share anonymized personal data to improve AI products
Despite a difficult economic environment, organizations continue to invest in privacy, with spending up significantly from $1.2 million just three years ago to $2.7 million this year, according to Cisco. Yet, 92 percent of respondents believe their org…
Concern over NYC police filming of people leaving Drake show
NEW YORK (AP) — Some audience members leaving a…
Privacy’s impact continues to grow, but more remains to be done
Read the Cisco 2023 Data Privacy Benchmark Report to learn how organizations continue to get returns from investments.
Bulk Surveillance of Money Transfers
Just another obscure warrantless surveillance program.
US law enforcement can access details of money transfers without a warrant through an obscure surveillance program the Arizona attorney general’s office created in 2014. A database stored at a nonprofit, the Transaction Record Analysis Center (TRAC), provides full names and amounts for larger transfers (above $500) sent between the US, Mexico and 22 other regions through services like Western Union, MoneyGram and Viamericas. The program covers data for numerous Caribbean and Latin American countries in addition to Canada, China, France, Malaysia, Spain, Thailand, Ukraine and the US Virgin Islands. Some domestic transfers also enter the data set…
Microsoft Invests Billions in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI
Microsoft says it is making a “multiyear, multibillion dollar investment” in the artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and other tools that can write readable text and generate new images.
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The last week of January is Data Privacy Week 2023
Data Privacy Week, traditionally observed during the last week…