Tag: privacy
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ICO’s £14m Reddit Fine Highlights Age Check Privacy Concerns
Tags: privacyThe UK’s ICO has fined Reddit over £14m for failing to use children’s personal information lawfully First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/icos-14m-reddit-fine-age-check/
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Reddit, porn sites fined by UK regulators over children’s safety and privacy
Ofcom and the Information Commissioner’s Office respectively fined a US porn company and Reddit for failing to protect children online. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/reddit-porn-sites-fined-by-uk-regulators-over-childrens-safety-and-privacy/
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Navigating the Frontier: A Guide to Establishing AI Governance
Navigating the Frontier: A Guide to Establishing AI Governance 1. Build a Cross-Functional Foundation The first step in any governance program is defining who is responsible for what actions. AI impacts every corner of the business, so a siloed approach will fail. Assemble a Cross-Functional Team: Bring together stakeholders from Marketing, Product Development, Finance, HR,…The…
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Global regulators say AI image tools don’t get a free pass on privacy rules
Watchdogs warn models that can generate realistic images of people must comply with data protection laws First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/02/23/privacy_watchdogs_ai_images/
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TikTok’s New U.S. Deal and Privacy Policy: What Users Don’t Understand
TikTok has shifted to a majority-American entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture, LLC, to comply with U.S. national security requirements and avoid a ban. This week we discuss why a recent privacy policy update went viral”, especially language about sensitive data like immigration status and precise location”, and argue much of it reflects longstanding practices and…
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Is your travel data safe with Agentic AI
How Secure Is Your Travel Data with Agentic AI? Can we truly rely on Agentic AI to keep our travel data secure? The rise of artificial intelligence in managing personal and sensitive data has led to increased concerns about privacy and security. While we continue our journey through digital, it’s crucial to evaluate the effectiveness……
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DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies
Tags: privacyHomeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform”, after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/dhs-wants-a-single-search-engine-to-flag-faces-and-fingerprints-across-agencies/
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Google Blocks 1.75 Million Malicious Apps from Entering Play Store
Google has revealed that it blocked more than 1.75 million malicious or policy”‘violating Android apps from reaching users through the Play Store in 2025, highlighting a major AI”‘driven push to secure the mobile ecosystem against malware, fraud, and privacy abuse. More than 80,000 “bad” developer accounts were also banned, cutting off repeat offenders who tried…
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Why the USEU Privacy Divide Still Matters in the Age of AI
Tags: privacyExplore the evolving landscape of privacy and security in the age of AI. This article examines the cultural and regulatory differences between the U.S. and Europe, the limitations of current policies, and the imperative for architectural solutions to ensure that autonomous systems can uphold privacy standards. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/why-the-us-eu-privacy-divide-still-matters-in-the-age-of-ai/
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Microsoft Patches Security Flaw That Exposed Confidential Emails to AI
Microsoft Corp. confirmed it is addressing a significant security lapse that allowed its Copilot AI to bypass privacy protections and summarize users’ confidential emails without authorization. The bug, which has persisted since late January, effectively ignored data loss prevention (DLP) protocols designed to keep sensitive corporate information out of the reach of large language models..…
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Microsoft Patches Security Flaw That Exposed Confidential Emails to AI
Microsoft Corp. confirmed it is addressing a significant security lapse that allowed its Copilot AI to bypass privacy protections and summarize users’ confidential emails without authorization. The bug, which has persisted since late January, effectively ignored data loss prevention (DLP) protocols designed to keep sensitive corporate information out of the reach of large language models..…
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Millionen Chrome-Erweiterungen geben Browserverlauf preis
Eine Sicherheitslücke in beliebten Chrome-Erweiterungen führt dazu, dass der Browserverlauf der Anwender offengelegt ist.Ein Sicherheitsforscher mit dem Pseudonym ‘Q Continuum” hat 287 Chrome-Erweiterungen entdeckt, die den Browserverlauf exfiltrieren. ‘Die Akteure hinter den Lecks sind vielfältig: Similarweb, Curly Doggo, Offidocs, chinesische Akteure, viele kleinere, unbekannte Datenbroker sowie ein mysteriöses Unternehmen namens “šBig Star Labs’, das offenbar…
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California Fines Disney $2.75 Million in Record CCPA Case
Tags: privacyCalifornia regulators have issued their largest penalty yet under the California Consumer Privacy Act, announcing a $2.75 million settlement with The Walt Disney Company after investigators found that consumer opt-out requests were not consistently honored across devices and streaming platforms. The case centers on a straightforward expectation that is becoming harder for companies to meet:……
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Elon Musk’s AI Bot Snared in New Irish, European Probes
GrokAI Non-Consensual Sexual Imagery Raises Official Hackles. European regulatory pressure on Elon Musk’s X social media network intensified this week with new probes into potential breaches of privacy roles by Grok AI chatbot. X claims to have stopped Grok from outputting the offending images, but apparently the chatbot still generates them. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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NDSS 2025 Defending Against Membership Inference Attacks On Iteratively Pruned Deep Neural Network
Session 12C: Membership Inference Authors, Creators & Presenters: Jing Shang (Beijing Jiaotong University), Jian Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University), Kailun Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University), Jiqiang Liu (Beijing Jiaotong University), Nan Jiang (Beijing University of Technology), Md Armanuzzaman (Northeastern University), Ziming Zhao (Northeastern University) PAPER Defending Against Membership Inference Attacks on Iteratively Pruned Deep Neural Networks Model…
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Android 17 Beta Introduces Secure-By-Default Architecture
Android 17 Beta introduces privacy, security updates and a new Canary channel for improved development First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/android-17-beta-secure-default/
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US lawyers fire up privacy class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China
Keep behavioral tracking American? PC giant says the claim is ‘false’ First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/lenovo_privacy_lawsuit/
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With CISOs stretched thin, re-envisioning enterprise risk may be the only fix
Tags: access, ai, application-security, business, cio, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, fraud, governance, grc, group, identity, infrastructure, jobs, monitoring, privacy, RedTeam, risk, soc, supply-chain, vulnerabilityStructural changes necessary: Flavio Villanustre, CISO for the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, says many organizations have already made the structural changes necessary to address the rising importance, and specialization, of cybersecurity and risk functions.”The breadth and depth of information security and cybersecurity have increased so significantly over the past two decades that it drove a…
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Feds Launch Portal to Report Substance Use Disorder Breaches
New HHS Enforcement Program Focuses on Patient Confidentiality, Aligning With HIPAA. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new breach reporting website and guidance materials to support its duties of enforcing compliance mandates that went into effect Monday to better align the confidentiality of substance use disorder records with the HIPAA…
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NDSS 2025 SiGuard: Guarding Secure Inference With Post Data Privacy
Session 12C: Membership Inference Authors, Creators & Presenters: Xinqian Wang (RMIT University), Xiaoning Liu (RMIT University), Shangqi Lai (CSIRO Data61), Xun Yi (RMIT University), Xingliang Yuan (University of Melbourne) PAPER SIGuard: Guarding Secure Inference with Post Data Privacy Secure inference is designed to enable encrypted machine learning model prediction over encrypted data. It will ease…
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Leaky Chrome extensions with 37M installs caught divulging your browsing history
Encrypted exfiltration made detection difficult: The researcher said in a blog post that several of these extensions attempted to hide the nature of transmitted data. Outbound payloads were frequently encrypted or encoded before transmission, preventing automated inspection.”Manual inspection of the captured traffic revealed a variety of obfuscation schemes: base64, ROT47, LZ-String compression, and full AES-256…
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Leaky Chrome extensions with 37M installs caught shipping your browsing history
Encrypted exfiltration made detection difficult: The researcher said in a blog post that several of these extensions attempted to hide the nature of transmitted data. Outbound payloads were frequently encrypted or encoded before transmission, preventing automated inspection.”Manual inspection of the captured traffic revealed a variety of obfuscation schemes: base64, ROT47, LZ-String compression, and full AES-256…
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Android 17 beta brings privacy, security, and performance changes
Google has released the first beta of Android 17, giving developers an early view of changes to core app behavior, platform tooling, performance, media handling, and … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/16/android-17-beta-changes-privacy-security/
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Your Smart Home Is Watching You: Privacy in the Age of AI Robots
From compromised TVs to AI-powered house chores, exploring the evolving global threats and why human-centric security matters more than ever. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/your-smart-home-is-watching-you-privacy-in-the-age-of-ai-robots/
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Apple privacy labels often don’t match what Chinese smart home apps do
Smart home devices in many homes collect audio, video, and location data. The apps that control those devices often focus on the account owner, even when the technology also … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/16/apple-ios-apps-china-smart-home-bystander-privacy/
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Ring’s Search Party ‘Dystopia’ Debate Claude Zero-Click RCE Vulnerability
In this episode, we discuss two major tech stories impacting privacy and security. First, we analyze Ring’s new AI-powered ‘Search Party’ feature and its controversial Super Bowl ad that sparked privacy concerns. We then transition to a breaking story about a zero-click remote code execution flaw in the Claude Desktop, highlighting the potential risks of……
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NDSS 2025 Diffence: Fencing Membership Privacy With Diffusion Models
Session 12C: Membership Inference Authors, Creators & Presenters: PAPER Yuefeng Peng (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Ali Naseh (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Amir Houmansadr (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Deep learning models, while achieving remarkable performances across various tasks, are vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIAs), wherein adversaries identify if a specific data point was part of…