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Apple's App Store team prevented more than $2 billion in transactions tagged as potentially fraudulent and blocked almost 1.7 million app submissions for privacy, security, and content policy violations in 2022. The App Store team also protected Apple users from hundreds of thousands of unsafe apps last year, rejecting almost 400,000 apps for privacy violations such as trying to harvest the user's personal data without their consent or knowledge.
In brief Japanese automaker Toyota has admitted yet again to mishandling customer data - this time saying it exposed information on more than two million Japanese customers for the past decade, thanks to a misconfigured cloud environment. The exposed data belongs to almost the entire Japanese customer base that had signed up for Toyota's T-Connect driver assist product, and users of the G-Link service - a similar product for Toyota's luxury subsidiary Lexus.
Google unveiled a slew of new privacy, safety, and security features today at its annual developer conference, Google I/O. The tech giant's latest initiatives are aimed at protecting its users from cyber threats, including phishing attacks and malicious websites, while providing more control and transparency over their personal data. Google has unveiled an update for its Android operating system that allows users to better control location sharing through apps installed on their devices.
A large language model is an artificial intelligence algorithm that employs deep learning methodologies, and extensive data sets to comprehend, condense, create, and predict new content. An example of an LLM is ChatGPT, a model developed by OpenAI that uses advanced machine learning algorithms to generate human-like language output.
Japan's minister for digital transformation and digital reform, Tono Karo, has apologized after a government app breached citizens' privacy. Fujitsu Japan developed and operates the service, which preps PDF files in response to user requests and then despatches them to printers in convenience stores.
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The US Federal Trade Commission is preparing to take action against Facebook parent company Meta for a third time over claims it failed to protect user privacy, as required under a 2020 agreement Meta made with the regulator. The rules imposed on Meta by the FTC would be extended under the new order to include any future acquisitions by Meta and would expand limits on the use of facial recognition technology included in the 2020 order.
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has officially made a return to Italy after the company met the data protection authority's demands ahead of April 30, 2023, deadline. The reinstatement comes following Garante's decision to temporarily block access to the popular AI chatbot service in Italy on March 31, 2023, over concerns that its practices are in violation of data protection laws in the region.
Windows 11 is getting a new privacy setting that allows users to control whether applications can detect when actively interacting with the device. The new privacy setting is called 'Presence sensing' and allows you to configure whether applications can use APIs to determine if a user is active or inactive in Windows.
Data Subject Requests, which are formal requests made by individuals to access, modify, or delete their personal data held by a company, increased by 72% from 2021 to 2022. These numbers will continue to increase as new data privacy laws, like those in Virginia and Colorado, come into effect and focus attention on responsible data privacy practices.