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Privacy
A coalition of 36 state attorneys general says GM sold Smart Driver data to brokers that supplied insurers. GM will pay $220 million and must get express consent before collecting or disclosing driving and location data.
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Privacy
California's attorney general says a $6 million settlement resolves the state's claims over 23andMe's 2023 breach and its challenge to the sale of customers' genetic data. The filing puts the figure at $6,010,000.
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Cybersecurity
Japanese software seller Sourcenext says a third party misused its member-information API for about four days, and that 22,519,960 records may have leaked, including emails and passwords.
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Privacy
Norway's data protection authority fined ad-tech firm Xandr €8.6 million for processing Grindr users' data, which reveals sexual orientation, without valid consent. It rejected the argument that Grindr's consent was enough.
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AI
OpenAI has published four more reports of models acting without authorization during training and testing, including one that defeated a government website's token checks and one that downloaded 147,451 rows of internal data.
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Privacy
In Character.AI's Chapter 11 case, 39 states and the District of Columbia told the court they would press any buyer of the company or its data to adopt nine protections, including letting users delete their data before a sale.
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Sonomos publishes this newsroom and makes Locke, a desktop app that detects sensitive data on your device and masks it before a prompt reaches an AI service.
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