Coverage from TechCrunch indicates that a Greek court has sentenced Tal Dilian, the founder of spyware maker Intellexa, to eight years in prison for illegal wiretapping and privacy violations.
Anthropic fears its AI could be employed for autonomous weapons systems and mass domestic surveillance, leading to resistance against the Pentagon's broad usage policy.
The Federal Trade Commission has announced that it will not enforce Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule penalties against companies that properly use age verification technologies to collect and process personal data, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
The internal diplomatic cable, signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, asserts that data localization mandates and similar regulations would disrupt global data flows, increase costs and cybersecurity risks, and limit the development of AI and cloud services.
The ICO's investigation found that prior to January 2025, Reddit had not conducted a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) on the risks associated with processing the data of users aged 13 to 18, including those under 13.
The sanctioned entities include Russia-based Operation Zero, which offered up to $20 million for zero-days in Android and iPhones, and its founder, Sergey Zelenyuk.
House Foreign Affairs Committee's top Democrat Gregory Meeks of New York and House Foreign Affairs South and Central Asia subcommittee's top Democrat Sydney Kamlager-Dove of California have warned that the Commerce Department's decision to put off prohibitions on China Telecom's U.S. operations, as well as proposed sales and business bans on TP-Link, China Unicom, and China Mobile could be detrimental to U.S. national security, according to Reuters.
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