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The principles, laws, and practices governing how personal data is collected, stored, shared, and protected by companies and regulators.
OpenAI lets advertisers target ChatGPT users by uploaded email, phone number or Android advertising ID, according to 404 Media's tests. Prompts that users may assume are private are a targeting input too.
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Researcher cereblab's mitmproxy capture shows xAI's Grok Build CLI 0.2.93 sending about 5.10 GiB to storage and 192 KB to the model. The prompt said not to read files, so teams should audit what their agent CLIs transmit.
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ZyMix, a UK student super app, has a contract with a German-based Tencent subsidiary, the Guardian reported. The company says the contract covers auxiliary services and does not include storing user data.
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SimpleClosure says 47% of its startup wind-down deals now include a sale of code or workspace data. One founder netted about $25,000 for his code base, and a lawyer who advises AI startups calls such data "legally radioactive."
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Asus has launched ProArt P14 and P16 laptops in Australia whose 128 GB models can run 120-billion-parameter AI offline. Teams wary of how cloud services handle their data now have local hardware to price, though only the top memory tier supports that claim.
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Equs launched Equs X, a personal AI that reads only the files a user switches on, and it is free for the first 90 days. If the design works as described, switching a file off ends access outright, with no deletion request to file at a model provider.
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Meta says its Muse agent "may still remember information it learned from what you deleted," and PCWorld reports that Muse data trains Meta's AI by default. Anyone connecting an inbox to it is making a choice that deleting a chat will not fully reverse.
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Inc. columnist Jason Aten says Meta's Muse agent synced his Mac texts up to row 187,462 while Full Disk Access showed as off. Meta says that cannot happen, so the dispute is over whether a settings screen shows users what an agent can actually read.
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New Mexico asked a state judge for up to $40 billion from Meta after a jury found more than 43 million violations of its Unfair Practices Act. That is seven to eight times Meta's 2019 FTC settlement, sought over public statements about privacy and hate speech.
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New Mexico jurors found Facebook broke the state's Unfair Practices Act nearly 44 million times, at up to $5,000 per violation. A judge sets the penalty in the coming weeks from findings that Facebook's public statements about data sharing misled its users.
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AWS's Reimagine 2026 report, built on 154 executive interviews, says review processes sized for six-month IT programs are driving AI use underground. AWS's answer is governance built into the systems themselves, with humans kept accountable for outcomes.
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Meta lost a second New Mexico consumer-protection jury trial this year, on findings the state's lawyer counts as 43.9 million violations worth up to $5,000 each. A judge sets the penalty next, and that same lawyer expects Meta's appeal to hold back any cash for four or five years.
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Meta's Muse agent reached the top of Apple's free app chart by doing users' shopping for them, and Amazon shut it out of its store on contract grounds, a theory Amazon already lost a ruling on against Perplexity.
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LinkedIn sued last October over a network of bogus accounts it said numbered in the millions. A California judge has now finalized a consent judgment requiring the two firms to stop scraping, stop selling, and destroy what they took.
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A Senate subcommittee will ask four camera vendors on Sept. 23 who has access to hundreds of millions of Americans' data. Verkada answered in writing first and said its chief executive cannot attend.
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In the same reporting area the FCC listed seven sites down from physical damage. That split tells product teams what an emergency mode is actually up against, and StellarLight's founder says energy independence is the harder half.
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Wired's tester calls the rebuilt assistant a real step change and still drifted back to Instagram, Yelp and the chatbot already on the phone. The feature that improved most answers a need that only comes up now and then.
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