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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 21, 2023

Well That is a Bit of an Oops A Google employee uploaded a list of 5,600 Virus Total customer administrators to Virus Total itself, making it visible to anyone. Among the users were admins from the NSA, Pentagon, FBI. UK Ministry of Defense and ministries in Germany, Japan, Qatar, Turkey, Frances and a dozen other […]

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The Noose is Tightening – SLOWLY – Around Social Media’s Neck

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta will be fined $100,000 a day over privacy breaches unless it fixes the issue, says Norway’s data protection board. Norway says that Meta can’t harvest physical location data to target ads. Big tech loves doing this, so while Meta is in the cross hairs today, if this sticks, others will […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 14, 2023

OpenAI and Meta Both Sued for Copyright Infringement Over AI Tools Even though the courts, with minor exception, are technologically uneducated, they are going to have to make some very important decisions. Law.com is reporting that OpenAI is being sued by book authors, including comedian Sarah Silverman over misappropriation of their copyrighted works to be […]

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If ChatGPT Libels You, Who Do You Sue? – It Is A Problem Already

Everyone is in love with Large Language Model AIs, but they are far from perfect. Someone suggested that ChatGPT is “mansplaining as a service” (MaaS). While perhaps it is a somewhat pejorative term (to either the GPTs or men), it is fairly accurate. A couple of months ago a professor at UCLA asked ChatGPT to […]

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ChatGPT and Data Protection Laws

Things are moving very quickly in the AI/Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) business. This is a super-competitive world between say Google, Microsoft, Meta, IBM and many others with – more to come. But there are still privacy laws to deal with and a court system that is ill-prepared to even fully understand the problem. There are […]

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US and EU Agree to Yet Another Data Protection Agreement

In 1995 the US and EU started working on a cross border data transfer agreement. First came Safe Harbor (2000). In 2015 the EU Court of Justice invalidated this agreement in what is known as the Schrems I decision. In 2016, the US and EU agreed, in principle to Privacy Shield, a replacement for Safe […]

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