Ethics GDPR

Bank fined 300,000 euros for automatic rejection credit card application

A Berlin-based bank has been fined 300,000 euros by the Berlin data protection commissioner. The fine was imposed due to the bank’s lack of transparency regarding the automated rejection of a credit card application.The bank’s algorithm rejected the customer’s application without providing specific justification. The bank only provided general information about the scoring procedure but […]

AI Cybersecurity Privacy

Risks of Large Language Models such as ChatGPT

Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have gained immense popularity and are being rapidly deployed by various organizations.LLMs are trained on large amounts of text-based data and use deep learning to generate human-like text. While LLMs have impressive capabilities, they are not perfect and can make mistakes, hallucinate incorrect facts, and exhibit biases. Concerns […]

Data Sharing Data Subjects Privacy

NHS data breach: trusts shared patient details with Facebook without consent

An investigation by The Observer reveals that 20 NHS trusts in the UK have been sharing private details of patients’ medical conditions, appointments, and treatments with Facebook without consent. A covert tracking tool called Meta Pixel was found on the websites of these NHS trusts, collecting browsing information and sharing it with Facebook, in violation […]

Data Breaches

Safety Complaints of Tesla’s Autopilot self-driving and assistance feature in huge leak

German newspaper Handelsbatt received 100GB of data from informants at Tesla. The data contains information on thousands of complaints regarding Tesla’s Autopilot self-driving feature. The collection of data includes 23,000 internal files from 2015 to 2022. Complaints detail issues with self-acceleration, brake function, involuntary emergency braking, and phantom stops.More than 1,000 crash reports are included […]

Multifactor Authentication

Backup in the cloud of Google Authenticator means loosing control

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is widely recommended for security, but the devil is in the details. Google recently faced issues with their Google Authenticator app, causing concern in the security community.Authenticator apps like Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, and Authy generate time-dependent six-digit numbers based on a secret key. This system, known as time-based one-time passwords (TOTP), […]