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Toyota exposed location data of 2.3 million customers for over a decade

Toyota has exposed the location data of 2.3 million customers for over a decade. The information was accessible due to a security breach in their sales module. The data included customers’ names, email addresses, and vehicle identification numbers (VINs). The breach occurred in Japan, but the data of customers from several countries, including the US […]

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Surveillance or privacy concerns could make WhatsApp dissapear in UK?

UK ministers have been warned that WhatsApp could disappear from the country due to privacy concerns. The warning comes as a result of a proposed new law that would require messaging platforms to allow law enforcement access to encrypted messages in certain circumstances. WhatsApp currently uses end-to-end encryption, which prevents anyone, including WhatsApp itself, from […]

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Android chip provider secretly collecting user data

Security researchers discovered that a chip present in some Android phones manufactured by Qualcomm is secretly collecting user data of a sensitive nature such as passwords, financial information, and fingerprints.The chip, called the Qualcomm Secure Execution Environment (QSEE), is designed to protect sensitive information on the device.However, researchers found that the QSEE chip was secretly […]

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ChatGPT back in Italy…

ChatGPT back in Italy after order. ChatGPT, sent a letter to the Italian SA describing the measures it implemented in order to comply with the order issued by the SA on 11 April. OpenAI:– explained what personal data it uses for training of algorithms;– explaned privacy notice accessible in sign up;– granted all individuals in […]

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Bing gets search results from Edge

Bing gets search results from Edge

Microsoft Edge browser has a privacy issue that can lead to URL leaks. Bing gets search results from Edge. This issue arises due to the “search suggestions” feature in Edge, which suggests URLs as users type. These suggested URLs are fetched from Bing, Microsoft’s search engine. However, the URLs are fetched even before the user […]

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Security implications of ChatGPT

ChatGPT is an advanced tool that can generate meaningful results with minimal user expertise, but what are the security implications of ChatGPT? The quality of ChatGPT’s output depends on factors such as specificity, clarity, and context. Users must understand ChatGPT’s capabilities and limitations and evaluate its output critically. Effective utilization of ChatGPT involves prompt engineering […]

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Italian DPA: ChatGPT illegally collects personal data and no age verification

The Italian Data Protection Authority has ordered, with immediate effect, the temporary restriction of the processing of Italian users’ dataagainst OpenAI, the U.S.-based company that developed and operates the platform. At the same time, the Authority opened an investigation.ChatGPT, the best-known relational artificial intelligence software capable of simulating and processing human conversations, had suffered a […]

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The privacy loophole in your doorbell

Did you know that your Ring doorbell video footage could be part of police surveillance? Ring saw search warrants increase 33 percent in 2022 from the previous year. The lack of legal controls on what police can ask for, and judges failing to properly scrutinize these warrants, opens the door for even indoor home footage […]

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Proposed EU-US Data privacy framework is too vague

The European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs has recommended states that the executive order is too vague, and leaves US courts — who would be the sole interpreters of the proposed EU-US Data Privacy Framework — wiggle room to approve the bulk collection of data for signals intelligence, and doesn’t apply […]