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The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against social media platform TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, alleging widespread violations of children's privacy laws. [...]
Healthcare organizations continue to put their business and patients at risk of exposing their most sensitive data, according to Metomic. While publicly shared files that contain highly sensitive data pose the biggest risk for healthcare organizations and underscore the need for data security and DLP tools, many of the access permissions for private files are never updated or removed.
Big Red agrees not to capture personal details after two-year class action Oracle has agreed to cough up $115 million to settle a two-year class action lawsuit that alleged misuse of user data.…
The complaint follows a similar protest in the European Union under the General Data Protection Regulation, which resulted in the social media biz agreeing to pause plans to train AI models on EU users' Facebook and Instagram users' posts. Although UK data protection law currently mirrors that in the EU, its decision to leave the economic and political bloc came into effect at the end of 2020.
Garg's former roommate, identified as "Victim 1" in court documents, received thousands of threatening emails, phone calls, texts, and social media messages in which Garg threatened to murder, torture, and rape her. Garg then targeted that victim's uncle - the attorney who represented her in obtaining the protection order - plus her boyfriend, a Seattle police detective who investigated the threats, and the deputy prosecuting attorney working on Garg's stalking case.
Brazil's data protection authority, Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD), has temporarily banned Meta from processing users' personal data to train the company's artificial intelligence...
Proton has launched 'Docs in Proton Drive,' a free and open-source end-to-end encrypted web-based document editing and collaboration tool. Proton is a Swiss company renowned for its privacy-focused services, including Proton VPN, Proton Mail, Proton Pass, Proton Drive, and now also Proton Docs.
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Please turn on your JavaScript for this page to function normally. In this Help Net Security round-up, experts discuss the importance of embracing AI while implementing protective measures against threats, global AI adoption, consumer perceptions, and behaviors regarding data privacy.
Meta on Friday said it's delaying its efforts to train the company's large language models (LLMs) using public content shared by adult users on Facebook and Instagram in the European Union...