Google wants to use your emails to train its AI -- here's how to turn that off

appleinsider - Once again, Google has decided for you that your data is its toy. Here's how to stop Gmail from training its AI on your email.GmailThere's no shortage of big tech companies that want to use your data to train their large language models. Recently, I discu…

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EU Unveils Plans to Delay AI Rules and Relax GDPR to Boost Tech Sector

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - The European Commission has unveiled a "Digital Omnibus" proposal that has delayed high-risk AI Act deadlines and has relaxed GDPR consent rules to boost industrial competitiveness.The post EU Unveils Plans to Delay AI Rules and Relax GDPR to Boost Tech S…

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Organizations overconfident in dealing with cybersecurity incidents

Ian Barker / betanews - New research from Immersive Labs reveals a widening gap between confidence and capability in cybersecurity. While nearly every organization (94 percent) believes it can handle a major incident, the data tells a different story. According to Immersive’s an…

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European Union Plans To Water Down AI And Data Privacy Rules Amid US Pressure?

Chaitanya Kohli / medianama - The EU is considering rolling back parts of the GDPR, AI Act, and ePrivacy rules under its Digital Omnibus reforms. Critics warn the changes could weaken privacy protections, expand Big Tech’s access to data, and reduce user control across Europe.The post…

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Firefox Wants to Challenge AI Browsers With Privacy-First ‘AI Window’

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Mozilla has announced 'AI Window' for Firefox, an opt-in assistant focused on user choice and privacy, directly challenging AI-native browsers from OpenAI, Perplexity and Microsoft.The post Firefox Wants to Challenge AI Browsers With Privacy-First ‘AI Win…

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Google says new cloud-based “Private AI Compute” is just as secure as local processing

Ryan Whitwam / arstechnica - New system allows devices to connect directly to secure space in Google's AI servers.

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Microsoft Uncovers ‘Whisper Leak’ Flaw, Exposing Encrypted AI Chats Across 28 LLMs

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft researchers have detailed a new side-channel attack called “Whisper Leak” that can guess the topic of encrypted AI chats, exposing a fundamental privacy risk across the AI industry. In a report, the team showed how patterns in network traffic si…

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Discord now lets parents control who contacts their teens, but messages stay private

Stevie Bonifield / theverge - Discord is expanding the safety controls parents and guardians have access to in its Family Center, including increased visibility of their teens’ activity, allowing guardians to control sensitive content filtering and data privacy settings, and giving th…

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U.S. Immigration Enforcement Apparently Provides Facial Scanning Tech to Local Cops

Lucas Ropek / gizmodo - It's part of a program that essentially deputizes police into the federal mass deportation effort.

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AI analytical agent caps a wave of new and enhanced Snowflake products

Paul Gillin / siliconangle - Snowflake Inc. today announced the general availability of Snowflake Intelligence, the centerpiece of the company’s latest wave of artificial intelligence-driven products aimed at allowing employees across skill levels to derive insights from enterprise d…

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‘We got hacked’ emails threaten to leak University of Pennsylvania data

Lawrence Abrams / bleepingcomputer - The University of Pennsylvania suffered a cybersecurity incident on Friday, where students and alumni received a series of offensive emails from various University email addresses, claiming that data was stolen in a breach. [...]

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Proton’s new Data Breach Observatory shines a light into the dark web

Ian Barker / betanews - Date breaches affecting businesses and online services are ever more frequent and can affect anyone who is unfortunate enough to be a customer or supplier. Finding out the facts about a breach can be tricky, however, as information is heavily reliant on s…

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ICE’s forced face scans to verify citizens is unconstitutional, lawmakers say

Ashley Belanger / arstechnica - Videos show ICE conducting random face scans on US streets.

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Character.AI to block romantic AI chats for minors a year after teen's suicide

cnbc - Character.AI said it will phase out open-ended chats for minors, including romantic dialogues with AI chatbots, by Nov. 25.

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Zurich-based Qala Raises €1.7M To Boost Enterprise Data Governance

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Switzerland-based Qala AG, a startup transforming enterprise data visibility and governance, has raised €1.7 million in pre-seed funding to advance its source-level data observability and compliance platform. The round was led by QBIT Capital and Haatch, …

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Clearview AI sued in Europe over alleged privacy violations

therecord - The complaint follows several enforcement actions and bans from European data protection authorities which the advocacy group, noyb, alleges Clearview AI has ignored.

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Apple Claims to be Pressured to Disable App Tracking Transparency in Europe

Laurent Giret / thurrott - Apple is threatening to disable its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature in Europe due to pressure from the advertising industry and local regulators.The post Apple Claims to be Pressured to Disable App Tracking Transparency in Europe appeared first on…

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Toys “R” Us Canada warns customers' info leaked in data breach

Bill Toulas / bleepingcomputer - Toys "R" Us Canada has sent notices of a data breach to customers informing them of a security incident where threat actors leaked customer records they had previously stolen from its systems. [...]

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Reddit sues Perplexity over alleged large-scale data scraping

Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Reddit has filed a lawsuit against the answer-engine company Perplexity and three data-scraping service providers, SerpApi, Oxylabs, and AWMProxy. The legal action seeks to halt what Reddit’s complaint describes as the unlawful, industrial-scale circumven…

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