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Australian supermarket giant Woolworths is reportedly looking into deploying facial recognition technology across its retail stores. No details about the scope, timeline, or data handling practices have been confirmed.
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Several U.S. states have passed or are enforcing laws that regulate how employers use automated decision-making tools in hiring, promotion, discipline, and termination. These rules typically require companies to notify workers or job applicants when such technology is used to make consequential decisions about them.
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A proposed California bill aims to close existing loopholes in student data privacy law. The legislation would tighten protections around how student information is collected, used, or shared.
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A newly surfaced Meta patent describes smart glasses capable of facial recognition, reviving a concept the company has flirted with before. The patent suggests Meta continues to explore technology that could identify people in the real world through wearable hardware.
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A crypto firm connected to Donald Trump is backing a venture that reportedly offers access to AI technology from Chinese companies currently subject to U.S. restrictions. The arrangement draws attention given the political and regulatory sensitivities around restricted Chinese tech.
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US pauses border construction in Big Bend National Park after widespread criticism Reuters
A Georgia law school has adopted an AI policy that includes a required course covering artificial intelligence as part of its curriculum. The move reflects growing institutional attention to how legal education addresses emerging technology.
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In a post-mortem, the frontier AI testing company said internet access for models is necessary to fully test out their cybersecurity capabilities. The post Irregular says ‘human oversight’ responsible for AI sandbox escape incidents appeared first on CyberScoop.
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Data brokers collect and sell detailed personal information, and that information can be used to craft highly targeted scams against the people it describes. The risk goes beyond spam — specificity makes these scams harder to spot and easier to fall for.
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A data breach at a South Carolina loan company exposed the financial information and Social Security numbers of nearly 750,000 people. The incident affected both borrowers and people who had only inquired about a loan through a third-party channel.
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The Supreme Court declined to hear Verizon's appeal seeking a $47 million refund of an FCC fine, leaving the penalty in place. Mobile carriers continue to argue that selling customers' device-location data to third parties does not violate federal law.
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Anthropic plans to add watermarks to text generated by its Claude AI models, a move tied to compliance requirements under the European Union's AI Act. The watermarking would allow generated content to be identified as AI-produced.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection plans to install facial recognition technology at the Calexico Port of Entry, a busy land crossing on the California-Mexico border.
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Apple has agreed to change how it handles app data consent rules, according to Germany's data protection regulator. The specifics of the changes have not been detailed publicly, but the announcement signals regulatory pressure on Apple's data practices in Germany.
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A threat actor is selling employee databases allegedly stolen from the Microsoft Azure infrastructure of multiple Fortune 500 companies after gaining access using compromised credentials. [...]
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Pokémon Center has notified customers in the United Kingdom and Germany of a data breach originating at CEVA Logistics, a third-party logistics provider. The incident exposed customer personal and order information and resulted in some orders being cancelled.
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Dan Ives of Yorkville Ives told CNBC that government involvement in AI regulation is inevitable. The comment reflects a view, increasingly common among market analysts, that the private sector alone will not set the rules for AI development.
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Meta has filed a patent for smart glasses equipped with AI-powered facial recognition that can identify people nearby and record automatically. The patent signals Meta's interest in moving ambient identification technology from concept into a consumer wearable.
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A hidden AirTag placed in a shipment reportedly revealed that Amazon is destroying rare books rather than reselling or returning them, apparently to use the material for AI training purposes.
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Best Buy is integrating Adobe's AI tools into its operations, connecting artificial intelligence capabilities with content management and governance functions.
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A ransomware group called Chaos claims to have published 235 gigabytes of protected health information and internal documents allegedly taken from Healthcare Highways, a medical provider network company. The data was posted to a dedicated leak site after an apparent deadline passed.
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A Thomson Reuters piece argues that responsible AI policy frameworks, rather than slowing government adoption of AI, can actually accelerate it by building the trust and accountability structures agencies need to move forward.
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