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The Register ·
US data annotation operation Scale AI faces five GDPR complaints in four EU countries over allegations that it unlawfully monitors European contractors. Privacy campaigner noyb alleges that Scale tracks contractors who perform data...
Medianama ·
The Supreme Court of India has refused to stay the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP Act), 2023, without hearing the government’s side and has listed the matter for November 17, 2026. This was the first hearing of the Digital...
CIO&Leader ·
The DPDPA Forum, an independent Section 8 non-profit concerned with India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, held Chapter 01 of the DPDPA Leadership Conclave at the Bombay Stock Exchange, Mumbai, on Saturday 17 October 2026....
Inc42 Media · · Unconfirmed
A group of 21 news publishers has reportedly challenged India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act in the Supreme Court (SC), arguing that the law could undermine investigative journalism and expose journalists’ sources. The...
BGR ·
Siri AI brings with it a slew of concerns about privacy, but you can tweak these settings if you're looking to protect yourself and your data.
Ghacks Technology News ·
Google has updated its privacy policy so that content from Gmail , Google Photos, and Google Drive can play a role in personalized ads when users connect those apps to other Google services. The revised policy took effect on October 16,...
TechRadar ·
A report makes alarming privacy claims about Samsung smart TVs — but here's why I'm not worried
TNW ·
Google has changed its privacy policy so that Gmail, Drive and Google Photos content can shape your ads. That applies if you connect those apps to Google services that show ads. The new version of the Google privacy policy took effect...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
First National Bank (FNB) has been fined R1 million by South Africa’s Information Regulator after being found in violation of several provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) . The penalty follows an...
TechSpot ·
The change sits in Google's updated privacy policy, which took effect on October 16 and was first spotted by Android Authority. The policy has long said, "We don't show you personalized ads based on your content from Drive, Gmail, or...
Engadget ·
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses have rightly been criticized for the many ways they can violate people's privacy.
Engadget ·
Your Mac comes with a fairly robust suite of built-in privacy tools.
Digital Trends ·
Google’s pledge to keep Gmail and Photos out of ad targeting now has an exception for connected AI search data.
TechRadar ·
Eric Hal Schwartz is a freelance writer for TechRadar with more than 15 years of experience covering the intersection of the world and technology. For the last five years, he served as head writer for Voicebot.ai and was on the leading...
Ghacks Technology News ·
A New Mexico state judge has ordered Meta to pay a $25 billion civil penalty over Facebook 's handling of user data, following a September jury verdict in the state's lawsuit tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Santa Fe District...
Ars Technica ·
Using Google's products and services has always been fundamentally precarious—doing so gives the world's largest advertising company a lot of juicy personal data. Google has long said it won't use the sensitive data from products like...
Android Authority ·
TL;DR Google updated its privacy policy to clarify that it could use information shared through Personal Intelligence to personalize ads. Gmail, Drive, and Photos content isn’t used for targeted ads by default, but connecting them to...
Malwarebytes Labs · · Medium severity
Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal may feel like very old news . But the consequences are still arriving, and the latest comes with a $25 billion price tag. Reuters reports that a New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion...
The Hacker News ·
Social media giant Meta was ordered to pay 25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy lawsuit that sprang from the company's Cambridge Analytica data scandal, which came to light in 2018....
MEDIANAMA ·
Zomato’s parent company Eternal will launch Dark.ai , an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant on which it says it cannot read users’ conversations “even if we are forced to,” founder Deepinder Goyal said in the company’s shareholder...
SecurityWeek · · Medium severity
The $25 billion award far exceeds a $5 billion fine the Federal Trade Commission levied against Facebook in 2019. The post Meta Ordered to Pay New Mexico $25 Billion for Deceiving Users About Privacy on Facebook appeared first on...
MEDIANAMA ·
Gujarat’s Higher Education Department has drafted a plan to train five lakh college students in artificial intelligence (AI). The Times of India reported on October 21. The first course, which is to be held online, has been designed by...
SiliconANGLE ·
was ordered to pay $25 billion in penalties today after a jury found the company had misled its users related to how it protects and uses their data. In what is one of the largest fines ever leveled against a tech giant, a jury in a...
Latest InfoTech News, IT, Information Technology News | The HinduBusinessLine ·
The judgment follows years of litigation over consumer protection claims and adds to mounting legal challenges facing the technology company.
Engadget ·
The case stemmed from the nearly decade-old Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Hacker News ·
The Record by Recorded Future · · Medium severity
The Cambridge Analytica data privacy case from a decade ago is still weighing on Meta's finances.
Malwarebytes Labs ·
WhatsApp instructed its AI support chatbot not to recommend contacting privacy regulators when users couldn’t delete their accounts, researchers found. Privacy software company Redact discovered the hidden text on October 8. Its...
Tech-Economic Times ·
Jurors in September found Meta liable for over 43 million violations of New Mexico consumer protection laws when a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, harvested Facebook user data to generate targeted political ads for the...
Slashdot ·
A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy during the Cambridge Analytica scandal. State Attorney General Raul Torrez called it "one of the largest, if not...
Malwarebytes Labs ·
WhatsApp instructed its AI support chatbot not to recommend contacting privacy regulators when users couldn’t delete their accounts, researchers found. Privacy software company Redact discovered the hidden text on October 8. Its...
AppleInsider · · Unconfirmed
A New Mexico judge hammered Meta on Wednesday with a record-breaking $25 billion penalty, all stemming from a lawsuit over the Cambridge Analytica debacle. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg The ruling comes after September's guilty finding,...
YourStory RSS Feed ·
Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal has announced his intention to get directly into the world of artificial intelligence (AI) with the promise of a platform that will maintain the privacy of an individual while also providing the answers....
Cio Sa ·
Storing data locally does not automatically guarantee data sovereignty. During a panel discussion titled: Borderless business, local data: Navigating data sovereignty in 2026, top IT leaders unpacked how to balance global cloud scale...
TechSpective ·
Remember those Facebook quizzes that made the rounds during the pandemic lockdowns? They’d ask for things like the street you grew up on or the name of your first pet, and everyone treated it as a fun way to get […] The post Why Your...
Analytics India Mag ·
Deepinder Goyal , founder of Eternal , has teased Dark.ai, a new AI platform focused on private conversations, with a global launch planned for 2026. “Dark.ai – from the house of Eternal. Coming soon,” Goyal wrote in a post on X.
YourStory ·
As India’s startups race to build AI-first products, the way they handle personal data could decide what those companies are eventually worth. Speaking at TechSparks 2026, YourStory’s annual flagship summit, Shivaarti Bajaj, Founding...
Tahawul Tech · · Medium severity
Cybersecurity leaders joined TahawulTech.com and Certes in Dubai to explore data-centric security, crypto-agility and quantum readiness under the roundtable theme “Devalue the stolen data”. The post Certes puts data protection beyond...
Help Net Security ·
A heart monitor used to be a box beside a hospital bed. Electrodes fed a cable, the cable fed a screen, and a nurse watched the screen. The threat model fit on a sticky note.
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
OpenAI has introduced Locked Chats in ChatGPT, a new feature that allows users to restrict access to sensitive conversations using a four-digit PIN, Face ID, or Touch ID on supported devices. Announced on Tuesday, October 20, the...
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