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Police deployed live facial recognition technology at The Lexicon, a shopping centre in Bracknell. The surveillance operation scanned people in a public retail space in real time.
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The Lawrence school district is developing an AI policy covering both staff and students, with a committee working toward adoption by the next school year.
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Australian state plans mandatory facial-recognition for problem gamblers MLex
The 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing displayed more than 3,000 products over five days, spanning humanoid robots, embodied intelligence systems, and industrial components. The event reflected China's expanding footprint in the global robotics sector.
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Powerful Labor mayor takes swing over ‘half-hearted’ NSW gambling reforms SMH.com.au
A Sainsbury's location in the UK has paused its use of facial recognition technology after a shopper was incorrectly identified as a shoplifter by the system. The incident prompted the store to suspend the technology while the error is reviewed.
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Haiti gang raid leaves 47 dead, as residents demand stronger protections Reuters
South Korea has released new AI ethics principles that are drawing pushback from industry, with companies expressing concern about requirements around data disclosure and the risk of increased regulatory exposure.
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Twenty-one states now have data privacy or security laws on the books, and auto dealers are moving to build out compliance programs in response. The wave of state-level legislation is creating a patchwork of requirements that dealers operating across multiple states must now navigate.
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OpenAI says it is slowing the pace of its frontier AI model development in order to strengthen safety measures, citing growing concern about AI agents behaving in unintended ways. The move represents a deliberate brake on the company's usual release cadence.
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Representative Suhas Subramanyam is pushing to add model containment provisions to the FRONTIER Act and wants the bill marked up in September. The move follows a recent incident involving OpenAI and Hugging Face that brought AI containment concerns to the foreground.
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The Trump administration has walked back an earlier directive to hospitals requiring participation in a federal injury surveillance system, now telling them the program is voluntary. The shift follows reporting that revealed earlier correspondence had characterized hospital participation as mandatory.
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On August 10, the Ninth Circuit ruled against Meta in California et al. v. Meta, an important case about harmful social media design and Section 230. EPIC, alongside other digital rights orgs and professors, had filed an amicus brief in the case supporting the plaintiffs (state attorneys general, individual users, school districts, etc.). As EPIC … Continued
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A DataBreaches.net Commentary On July 31, Asheville Beaverdam NC Opco LLC d/b/a Bear Mountain Health and Rehabilitation, Asheville Victoria NC Opco LLC d/b/a Elevate Health & Rehabilitation, and Asheville US Seventy NC Opco LLC d/b/a Swannanoa Valley Health and Rehabilitation (collectively, “Asheville”) notified some of their residents that a threat actor had logged into their... Source
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UK police forces are expanding the use of live facial recognition technology in public spaces, continuing deployments despite ongoing opposition from civil liberties groups and critics of the practice.
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The UK and Ukraine have signed a deal giving British government agencies and private companies access to battlefield data from Ukraine's Avengers AI lab. The data will be used to train AI systems designed to protect military bases, railways, and energy infrastructure from threats including hostile states and protesters.
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A Massachusetts appeals court has ruled that plaintiffs in data breach lawsuits must show cognizable, concrete damage to bring a claim — not just the possibility that stolen data could cause future harm. The decision is the first of its kind in Massachusetts and follows the U.S. Supreme Court's 2021 TransUnion ruling limiting standing in federal courts.
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Putin allows Russia to take control of infrastructure deemed vulnerable to drone attacks Reuters
The Department of Veterans Affairs has deployed its new electronic health records system at three Indiana-based medical facilities, bringing the total number of rollouts in the current year to eleven.
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced a $400 million settlement with TikTok, ByteDance, and affiliated companies over alleged violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. The settlement resolves federal claims that the companies mishandled children's personal data.
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A judge has reduced the fee award sought by plaintiffs' attorneys in a privacy settlement against Google, cutting the amount lawyers will receive from the case.
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A senior Nvidia manager has been indicted in connection with a scheme involving Supermicro to smuggle AI servers to China. The case follows public criticism of Supermicro by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang over the alleged export violations.
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Government IT contracts increasingly include data privacy requirements, and vendors who misrepresent their compliance with those terms now face potential liability under the False Claims Act, a federal law that allows the government to recover damages from contractors who submit fraudulent claims.
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Cybersecurity firm ReliaQuest confirmed that hackers linked to the ShinyHunters group targeted one of its employees through a social engineering attack, impersonating an internal security team member in an attempt to steal data. The company says the attack did not succeed.
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