<p>Talk of backdoors in encrypted services is once again doing the rounds after reports emerged that the U.K. government is seeking to force Apple to open up iCloud&#8217;s end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) device backup offering. Officials were said to be leaning on Apple to create a &#8220;backdoor&#8221; in the service that would allow state actors to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A long-stalled bid to beef up European Union rules around online tracking technologies and put penalties on a similar footing to the bloc&#8217;s data protection framework, GDPR, has been withdrawn by the Commission after co-legislators failed to reach agreement over the plan. The original proposal to update the ePrivacy Directive and turn it into a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI says that it might store chats and associated screenshots from customers who use Operator, the company&#8217;s AI &#8220;agent&#8221; tool, for up to 90 days — even after a user manually deletes them. OpenAI has a similar deleted data retention policy for ChatGPT, its AI-powered chatbot platform. However, the retention period for ChatGPT is only [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As long as employees have access to such data, that information is vulnerable to evolving methods of hacking. </p>

<p>An Indian tribunal on Thursday suspended restrictions that would have barred WhatsApp from sharing user data with its parent company Meta, delivering a significant victory for Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s social media empire in its largest market by users. The ruling by the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal temporarily lifts a five-year ban imposed by India&#8217;s antitrust [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The company confirmed the breach after a hacker posted millions of location data records online.</p>

<p>The company confirmed the breach after a hacker posted millions of location data records online.</p>

<p>As wildfires rage for the third consecutive day through parts of Los Angeles, now including the Hollywood Hills, several neighborhoods have been forced to evacuate for safety purposes. But on Thursday afternoon, a wildfire evacuation alert was mistakenly sent to the smartphone of every resident in Los Angeles County, a region with more than 9 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As wildfires rage for the third consecutive day through parts of Los Angeles, now including the Hollywood Hills, several neighborhoods have been forced to evacuate for safety purposes. But on Thursday afternoon, a wildfire evacuation alert was mistakenly sent to the smartphone of every resident in Los Angeles County, a region with more than 9 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Last year, police surveillance startup Flock Safety hired the mayor of a California city with over 200,000 residents to promote its products. But the mayor, Ulises Cabrera of Moreno Valley, now claims Flock wrongfully terminated him, partly because he refused to use his position as mayor to benefit Flock, according to a lawsuit Cabrera filed [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It took a lot more than the initially slated few weeks to arrive, but a pivotal privacy decision that&#8217;s been hanging over Sam Altman&#8217;s World (aka Worldcoin) for months has finally landed, via a late December decision from the Bavarian data protection authority enforcing the bloc&#8217;s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a comprehensive privacy framework [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It took a lot more than the initially slated few weeks to arrive, but a pivotal privacy decision that&#8217;s been hanging over Sam Altman&#8217;s World (aka Worldcoin) for months has finally landed, via a late December decision from the Bavarian data protection authority enforcing the bloc&#8217;s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a comprehensive privacy framework [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple and Meta are warring in Europe over the balance between interoperability and privacy, Reuters reports. The fight focuses on the European Union&#8217;s Digital Markets Act (DMA), a competition regulation that requires designated gatekeepers (including Apple and Meta) not to restrict rivals&#8217; access to core platform services. In Apple&#8217;s case, this means iOS, iPadOS, App [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple and Meta are warring in Europe over the balance between interoperability and privacy, Reuters reports. The fight focuses on the European Union&#8217;s Digital Markets Act (DMA), a competition regulation that requires designated gatekeepers (including Apple and Meta) not to restrict rivals&#8217; access to core platform services. In Apple&#8217;s case, this means iOS, iPadOS, App [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published an opinion on Wednesday that explores how AI developers might use personal data to develop and deploy AI models, such as large language models (LLMs), without falling foul of the bloc&#8217;s privacy laws. The Board plays a key steering role in the application of these laws, issuing guidance [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published an opinion on Wednesday that explores how AI developers might use personal data to develop and deploy AI models, such as large language models (LLMs), without falling foul of the bloc&#8217;s privacy laws. The Board plays a key steering role in the application of these laws, issuing guidance [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Five years later sounds like a half-baked sequel to a well-known zombie flick franchise. But it&#8217;s a reference to how long it&#8217;s taken a data access complaint against Netflix to deliver a penalty decision in the European Union. The fine that&#8217;s &#8212; finally &#8212; been issued under the bloc&#8217;s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta has been fined €251 million (around $263 million) in the European Union for a Facebook security breach that affected millions of users, which the company disclosed back in September 2018. The penalty, issued on Tuesday by Ireland&#8217;s Data Protection Commission (DPC) enforcing the bloc&#8217;s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is far from being the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta has agreed to a $50 million payment program to settle a long-running proceeding in Australia related to misuse of information for political ad targeting, the country&#8217;s information watchdog OAIC announced Tuesday. The settlement concerns the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal, when data on millions of Facebook users was exfiltrated without their knowledge or consent by [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The European Union&#8217;s executive body is facing an embarrassing privacy scandal after it was confirmed on Friday that a Commission ad campaign on X (formerly Twitter) breached the EU&#8217;s own data protection rules. The finding by the EU&#8217;s oversight body, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), relates to a micro-targeted ad campaign that the Commission [&hellip;]</p>