More protections against data brokers were urged by lawmakers and data privacy experts to be added to the draft American Privacy Rights Act, which would only allow the deletion of consumer data provided that individual requests are made to the data brokers, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
The House has approved the bipartisan Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which seeks to bolster data privacy protections by prohibiting the warrantless acquisition of electronic and remote computing service providers' customer information among law enforcement and intelligence agencies, according to CyberScoop.
New guidelines addressing ethical concerns regarding the intelligence community's acquisition of Americans' commercially available information are set to be unveiled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Mental health subscription platform Cerebral has been ordered by the Federal Trade Commission to pay more than $7 million to resolve charges alleging that it provided TIkTok, LinkedIn, Snapchat, and other third-party entities access to sensitive data of nearly 3.2 million users for advertising purposes, reports The Hacker News.
Major instant messaging and VoIP social platform Discord had over four billion messages from almost 620 million users stored across over 14,000 chat servers claimed to be gathered by internet data scraping site Spy.pet, The Register reports.
Organizations could have their sensitive information compromised through a high-severity vulnerability in Google Cloud, Azure, and Amazon Web Services command line interface tools dubbed "LeakyCLI", The Hacker News reports.
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