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Europe's privacy watchdog launches 'large-scale' probe into Elon Musk's X | CNN Business
The European Union's data privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into Elon Musk's X over sexualised images generated by the social media site's AI chatbot, Grok.
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Grok faces more scrutiny over deepfakes as Irish regulator opens EU privacy investigation
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LONDON (AP) -- Elon Musk's social media platform X faces a European Union privacy investigation after its Grok AI chatbot started spitting out nonconsensual deepfake images, Ireland's data privacy regulator said Tuesday.
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Exclusive | Congress expands probe of TeaOnHer app accused of letting men post...
WASHINGTON -- The powerful House Oversight Committee is widening its investigation into the company behind the controversial, now-defunct TeaOnHer gossip app, which let men dish on the women they've dated -- and has been accused of exposing nude pictures and other sensitive data.
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IRS shared tax data on nearly 50K people with immigration officials...
The IRS shared confidential information on nearly 50,000 taxpayers with DHS officials for use in carrying out the Trump administration's massive deportation orders - seemingly violating key legal protections, according to court documents.
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Paris prosecutors raid X offices as part of investigation into child abuse images
PARIS -- French prosecutors raided the offices of social media platform X on Tuesday as part of a preliminary investigation into allegations including spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes.
#DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #DataPrivacy
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France ditches Zoom and Teams for homegrown system amid European digital sovereignty push
LONDON (AP) -- In France, civil servants will ditch Zoom and Teams for a homegrown video conference system. Soldiers in Austria are using open source office software to write reports after the military dropped Microsoft Office.
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Tiktok gets American owners -- but is China still in control?
TikTok has dodged a ban in the United States through a deal with its Chinese owner, ByteDance. Yet concerns continue to dog the short-form video app -- foremost being Beijing's ability to spread propaganda on American soil.
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TikTok Raises U.S. Censorship Fears After Messages About Jeffrey Epstein Are Blocked
TikTok USDS has faced scrutiny for its user agreement, which allows for the collection of sensitive data and gives Oracle oversight of changes to the app's algorithm, raising questions about potential political influence over content on the platform.
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Bondi's injection of voter roll demands into Minneapolis ICE tensions draws claims of 'ransom'
Attorney General Pam Bondi's demand that Minnesota hand over sensitive voter registration records to the federal government amid tensions over ICE and immigration enforcement underscores the importance of the administration's nationwide data grab that is facing resistance in multiple states and has stumbled in the courts.
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Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data
The FBI went to Microsoft last year with a warrant, asking them to hand over keys to unlock encrypted data stored on three laptops as part of an investigation into potential fraud involving the COVID unemployment assistance program in Guam -- and Microsoft complied.
