Privacy

Congress has been urged by Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson to bolster its version of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule as the agency intensifies its clampdown on erring websites and service providers under its recently updated COPPA rule, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

While attack methods vary on these incidents, it’s not clear if multiple threat actors are involved.

NSO Group has filed an appeal to reject last month's jury ruling that ordered a $167 million payment to WhatsApp after infecting over 1,400 users of the messaging app with spyware as part of an attack campaign six years ago, TechCrunch reports.

Brazil-based Unimed, which is the largest healthcare cooperative worldwide, had at least 14 million patient conversations with doctors and its chatbot "Sara" leaked by an unsecured instance of the open-source real-time data transmission platform Kafka, according to Cybernews.

Oregon has become the second state after Maryland to approve legislation prohibiting precise geolocation data sales, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Meta AI collected 32 of 35 different data points from its users, including contact details, financial information, user content, usage details, diagnostics, and location, making it the most aggressive among a group of 10 widely used artificial intelligence chatbots in obtaining user data, ZDNET reports.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has been sought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center and children's advocacy group Fairplay to launch a probe on Google's updated Family Link program that would allow youths younger than 13 to access the Gemini AI chatbot, noting such a move's violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

TechCrunch reports that major U.S. telecommunications firms AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon were noted by Senate Intelligence Committee member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., to have failed to inform the Senate regarding federal surveillance requests on lawmakers' mobile devices despite being mandated to do so as part of their contracts.