Meta used Flo menstruation app data to sell ads, jury finds

Iain Thomson / theregister - The social network disagrees with verdict and vows to explore all legal options A jury has unanimously found Meta guilty of violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act by using data from menstruation and fertility app Flo to sell advertising to the s…

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Hacker used a voice phishing attack to steal Cisco customers’ personal information

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / techcrunch - Cisco disclosed a data breach including customer names, organization names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers of Cisco.com users.

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Tests Show Microsoft’s Windows Recall AI Feature Still Captures Passwords, Validating Privacy Doubts

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - New tests show Microsoft's Windows Recall still captures passwords and credit cards, validating proactive blocking by apps like Signal, Brave, and AdGuard.The post Tests Show Microsoft’s Windows Recall AI Feature Still Captures Passwords, Validating Priva…

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Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / techcrunch - Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.

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Delta Air Lines Denies Using Personal Data in Ticket Pricing

PYMNTS / pymnts - Delta Air Lines reportedly told three senators that it does not and will not use customers’ personal data to set ticket prices. [contact-form-7] The airline said this in a letter sent in response to the senators’ letter, in which they cited an executive’s…

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ChatGPT Privacy Leak Spurs Feature Removal and Indexing Concerns

OpenAI has scrapped a ChatGPT feature after it emerged that private conversation links were being indexed on Google, sparking widespread privacy concerns. In a flurry of uneasy user discoveries and industry scrutiny, this move underscores the ongoing challenges of balancing open AI interactions with secure data handling.

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Spotify exposed: Private listening habits of politicians, journalists and tech bros leaked in a privacy meltdown

Christian Zibreg / idownloadblog - Spotify just leaked private playlists of famous people, and your personal music could be exposed too because of broken privacy settings.

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ShinyHunters behind Salesforce data theft attacks at Qantas, Allianz Life, and LVMH

Lawrence Abrams / bleepingcomputer - A wave of data breaches impacting companies like Qantas, Allianz Life, LVMH, and Adidas has been linked to the ShinyHunters extortion group, which has been using voice phishing attacks to steal data from Salesforce CRM instances. [...]

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Safepay ransomware threatens to leak 3.5TB of Ingram Micro data

Sergiu Gatlan / bleepingcomputer - The SafePay ransomware gang is threatening to leak 3.5TB of data belonging to IT giant Ingram Micro, allegedly stolen from the company's compromised systems earlier this month. [...]

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Tea app’s second data breach exposed over a million private messages

Lauren Forristal / techcrunch - Dating safety app Tea experienced a second data breach in as many weeks, exposing over a million sensitive messages between users.

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Tea Dating App Suffers Data Breach Leaking 72000 Images, Despite Safety Promise

Chaitanya Kohli / medianama - The data breach that occurred after some male 4Chan users called for a “hack and leak” campaign against the Tea dating app users raised data privacy concerns of such platforms. The post Tea Dating App Suffers Data Breach Leaking 72000 Images, Despite Safe…

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Dating safety app Tea breached, exposing 72,000 user images

Anthony Ha / techcrunch - Tea, an app that allows women to post anonymous comments about men they’ve supposedly dated, announced Friday that it has suffered a data breach, with hackers gaining access to 72,000 images.

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Allianz Life Confirms Major Data Breach Affecting Majority of 1.4 Million Customers

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Insurance giant Allianz Life confirms a major data breach affecting the majority of its 1.4M customers after a social engineering attack on a third-party CRM.The post Allianz Life Confirms Major Data Breach Affecting Majority of 1.4 Million Customers appe…

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Microsoft Admits It Cannot Guarantee EU Cloud Data Sovereignty from US Government

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - A Microsoft executive admitted under oath that the company cannot guarantee EU data is safe from US government access due to the CLOUD Act, undermining 'sovereign cloud' promises.The post Microsoft Admits It Cannot Guarantee EU Cloud Data Sovereignty from…

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France launches criminal probe of X's alleged algorithm 'manipulation'

Sarah Fielding / engadget - France is investigating whether X has manipulated its algorithm and engaged in "fraudulent data extraction." Prosecutors are looking into if the social media platform engaged in election interference. They launched the investigation on July 11, following …

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Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state

Brandon Vigliarolo / theregister - And we’re the ones building it Comment A tech executive's alleged affair exposed on a stadium jumbotron is ripe fodder for the gossip rags, but it exhibits something else: proof that we need not wait for an AI-fueled dystopian surveillance state to descen…

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Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta bigwigs just agreed to a settlement in $8 billion suit

Lawrence Bonk / engadget - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with a group of current and former company directors and officers, just agreed to settle to end a trial that sought $8 billion in damages, according to a report by Reuters. Zuckerberg and the others will actually be paying …

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Meta Settles Cambridge Analytica Lawsuit Amid Board Avoidance

Meta’s board reached a last‐minute settlement to end a high-stakes shareholder lawsuit tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The resolution, which circumvents public testimony by board members, has quietly closed one chapter while leaving industry insiders with a mix of relief and lingering skepticism.

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UK retail giant Co-op confirms hackers stole all 6.5 million customer records

Zack Whittaker / techcrunch - The hackers stole the company's member list, which included customer names, addresses, and contact information.

Back to Top / Wednesday, July 16, 2025, 9:21 am / permalink 10187 / 3 stories in 7 months

ICEBlock isn’t ‘completely anonymous’

Dominic Preston / theverge - The developer of ICEBlock, an iOS app for anonymously reporting sightings of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, promises that it "ensures user privacy by storing no personal data." But that claim has come under scrutiny. ICEBlock crea…

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