Privacy

Homeland Security has employed administrative subpoenas, which do not require judicial oversight, to request identifiable information from tech and phone companies.

As reported by Bleeping Computer, the United Kingdom's data protection authority has launched a formal investigation into X and its Irish subsidiary concerning allegations that the Grok AI assistant was used to generate nonconsensual sexual images, raising significant privacy concerns.

Security researcher Jatin Banga said that certain private Instagram profiles, when accessed from specific mobile devices, embedded links to private photos and their captions within the HTML response.

FedScoop reports that the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General found that the Veterans Health Administration's national cancer testing program had at least one project that did not comply with required security and privacy procedures.

Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Mark Meador has pushed the adoption of online age verification to better protect children from online security threats, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Spain's High Court has closed its investigation into the use of NSO Group's Pegasus spyware to target the mobile devices of top Spanish officials, including Prime Minister Pedro Snchez and Defense Minister Margarita Robles, citing a repeated lack of cooperation from Israel, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Cybernews reports that Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker has issued a forceful critique of the tech industrys pervasive data collection practices, arguing that privacy is a fundamental human right, not a luxury or a concern only for those with "something to hide."

The agency issued a Request for Information (RFI) to gauge the availability of personal, financial, location, and health data, according to a recent report by The Register.