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Moritz Körner, Member of the European Parliament, disclosed the decision on Twitter. Swedish publisher SVG said, “The question was removed at the last moment from Thursday’s ambassadorial meeting in Brussels”.

Patrick Breyer, a staunch defender of digital rights, laments the Pirate Party’s exit from the EU Parliament as a blow to online privacy.

A user on the online forum 4chan has leaked a massive 270GB of data purportedly belonging to The New York Times. This leak includes what is claimed to be the source code for the newspaper’s digital operations.

The latest proposal mandates user consent for monitoring messages on all communication apps, including those with end-to-end encryption.

Access was gained through a third-party cloud database provider, which we know to be Snowflake.

The only exception is private messages, and some users have reported difficulty opting out.

Would you like a spicy spaghetti dish? Just use some gasoline.

The service offers the ability to purchase credits through cryptocurrencies, as well as offers the data for AI training purposes.

Greg Sadetsky introduces his demo, Sagittarius, as a response to Google’s Gemini. Utilizing GPT-4, Sadetsky’s demo showcases real-time capabilities similar to those claimed by Gemini but were lacking in Google’s demonstration.

Twitter enforces strict restrictions against external parties using its data for AI training, yet it freely utilizes data created by others for similar purposes.

The EDPB issued an urgent binding decision that essentially bans Meta from using personal data for behavioral advertising in the entire European Economic Area (EEA).

This change will force its users into binding arbitration, which is a means to resolve disputes (such as a cybersecurity breach leaking your DNA data) outside of court.

Microsoft is working on a Jarvis that will monitor anything and everything about your digital life to try and optimize your life for “well being”.

Norway has succeeded in getting the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) to make permanent and extend across Europe its ban on Meta (Facebook’s parent company) harvesting user data for targeted ads on Facebook and Instagram.

I’m seeing a lot of reports from users of Huawei and Honor devices have reported that their phones are incorrectly identifying Google apps as Trojan malware, specifically labeled as TrojanSMS-PA. According to the alert, this “malicious software” has the ability to send SMS messages without user consent.

If you haven’t been following the Google vs. US Justice Department antitrust case, you probably didn’t know that Google tried extremely hard to avoid having any trial documents posted online. That was eventually overturned by Judge Amit Mehta, who is overseeing the case.

This affects all browsers and not just Chrome, as the media falsely reported it. Mozilla just rolled out a fix, and Brave is looking into it. This bug is likely related to the “zero-click” iOS 0day that was reported by Citizenlab last week.

The Consumers’ Association and the Foundation for the Protection of Privacy Interests have jointly filed a lawsuit against Google. The companies allege that Google has violated Dutch and European privacy laws, seeking an end to the company’s pervasive data collection and demanding compensation for users.

But what if you do? Will you get caught?

Recent updates to Meta’s help center reveal the company’s tentative steps towards transparency and user control (or lack thereof) over personal data.

Here’s the kicker: based on these AI-assigned definitions in the updated terms, your access to certain content might be limited, or even cut off. You might not see certain tweets or hashtags. You might find it harder to get your own content seen by a broader audience. The idea isn’t entirely new; we’ve heard stories of...

Sam Oh, the Vice President of Marketing at Ahrefs, recently shed light on this capability. Oh disclosed that a video posted by Ahrefs was flagged by YouTube for a rather unexpected reason. The video in question displayed a snippet from a book, and within that snippet was the name “Donald Trump.”....

An unidentified individual has listed the data of 760,000 Discord.io users for sale on a darknet forum. This discovery was brought to light by the “Information Leaks” Telegram channel, associated with the Russian service for tracking vulnerabilities, data leaks, and monitoring fraudulent online resources....

Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 5, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.

Meta has been chastised by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for its decision not to seek explicit consent from UK users for targeted advertising.