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IAPP · · International

EDPB puts ADMT-based recruitment in focus under Coordinated Enforcement Framework

The European Data Protection Board has selected automated decision-making and profiling in recruitment as the focus of its 2025 Coordinated Enforcement Framework, directing national data protection authorities across the EU to investigate how employers use algorithmic tools to screen and evaluate job candidates.

Who should care: Lawyers · Privacy officers · Compliance · AI governance

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News
E ET Education · · International

West Bengal schools to introduce AI-powered attendance system with facial recognition

West Bengal is planning to roll out a facial recognition system in schools to automate student attendance tracking. The AI-powered system would scan and identify students' faces as a substitute for traditional attendance methods.

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News
Microsoft Threat Intelligence · · International

Lessons from 59 Linux Kernel Bug Reports

Microsoft FORGE Lab researchers used codename MDASH to investigate Linux kernel vulnerabilities, resulting in 59 upstream bug reports, 33 assigned CVEs, and 38 merged fixes. The research includes eight demonstrated local root privilege-escalation exploits and examines the challenges of turning AI-generated findings into validated vulnerabilities and upstream fixes. The post Lessons from 59 Linux Kernel Bug Reports appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

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GDPR / Intl
ICO · · UK

Subject access requests generated by artificial intelligence

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has addressed the use of artificial intelligence to generate subject access requests, the formal mechanism individuals use to obtain copies of personal data held about them.

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Breach
DataBreaches.net · · International

Ca: York University Breach Exposes 19 Years of Student Health and Financial Data

Garrett Cole reports: Toronto’s York University has confirmed a major cybersecurity incident that resulted in the unauthorized theft of sensitive personal, medical, and financial records submitted across departmental webforms over a 19-year span. Disclosed to community members following forensic containment, the breach allowed an unauthorized actor to exfiltrate archived form submissions dating from 2007 through...

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Breach
DataBreaches.net · · International

Hotel giant Wyndham exposed customer data after app security lapse

It’s been a while since hotel and resort giant Wyndham has shown up on DataBreaches.net. There was one report in 2024, but prior extensive coverage involved their historic litigation with the FTC following a breach. Now Zack Whittaker reports: Hotel and resort giant Wyndham has acknowledged a cybersecurity incident after a good-faith security researcher discovered...

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Breach
DataBreaches.net · · International

Grok’s security blind spot exposed users and Musk’s company secrets

Security researchers found that more than 35,000 apps built on xAI's Grok platform were publicly accessible without restriction, exposing corporate data and personal information. The finding came after researchers scanned tens of thousands of web addresses tied to the grok.me domain.

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Breach
DataBreaches.net · · International

2013 breach at Russian cybercrime forum resurfaces with millions of victims’ credentials

A 2013 data breach of YouHack, a Russian-language cybercrime forum, has been newly cataloged by Have I Been Pwned, exposing 7.2 million unique email addresses. The dataset includes login credentials of roughly 107,000 forum members as well as millions of stolen credentials they had collected from other victims.

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News
DataBreaches.net · · International

SG: Fullerton Health server hit by cyberattack; personal data of migrant workers affected

Rhea Yasmine reports: A server supporting Fullerton Health’s Migrant Worker Primary Care Plan (PCP) programme was hit by a cybersecurity incident, said the healthcare service provider. In a statement on its website on Nov 9, it said the incident, which involved unauthorised access to the server, appears to have affected migrant workers’ personal data. This...

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Breach
DataBreaches.net · · International

Hundreds of Dutch sports clubs report cyberattack exposing members’ personal data

A cyberattack on AllUnited, a membership administration platform used by Dutch sports clubs, has triggered data breach reports from more than 350 clubs to the Dutch Data Protection Authority, with that number expected to climb. Personal information belonging to club members may have been exposed.

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Breach
DataBreaches.net · · International

ESET Links Cereal to Turla in Romanian Server Breach Case — Defense News

UA News reports: Slovak cybersecurity company ESET said that servers of a Romanian government institution were compromised in December 2025. The malware selected emails related to NATO and the European Union and created copies of them for later retrieval by the attackers. Defense News reported the attack. ESET linked the Cereal toolset to the Turla...

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News
T The Economic Times · · International

'Fourth Amendment doesn't allow it': AI facial recognition mistake lands Nebraska man in jail for 2 weeks;

A Nebraska man was jailed for two weeks after an AI facial recognition system misidentified him, according to reporting by The Economic Times. The case is being cited as a Fourth Amendment violation tied to the use of flawed AI-driven identification.

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News
T Telegraph and Argus · · International

REVEALED - Number of arrests made using live facial recognition in just 1 year

New figures reveal how many arrests were made using live facial recognition technology over the course of a single year, offering a rare concrete look at how often the surveillance tool is translating scans into police action.

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