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RSS feed →Researchers Find Thousands of Meta Muse Shared Chats Exposed Through Public DNS Records
Security researchers at Claroc have shown that shareable links created by Meta’s Muse AI agent were discoverable through ordinary passive DNS records,…
Consent Gating Failures Are Leading to Expensive Privacy Lawsuit Settlements
For 40 days in 2023, a clothing retailer’s website showed visitors a cookie preferences link.
Norway’s Datatilsynet Issues Record NOK 92 Million Fine to Xandr Over Grindr Data Sharing
Norway’s data protection authority, Datatilsynet, has fined Xandr, the advertising technology company now owned by Microsoft, NOK 92 million (approximately €8.6 million)…
States Are Writing the Rules for AI Chatbots as Mental-Health Risks Move Into the Open
In the absence of federal legislation, state lawmakers spent 2026 treating conversational AI as a product that can harm people, not merely…
Singapore’s IMDA Launches Starter Kit, Tester Accreditation and Cyber Taskforce for AI Safety
Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority has rolled out three initiatives aimed at making AI systems safer and more resilient as agentic tools…
Character.AI Files for Bankruptcy After Teen Mental-Health Claims Expose Governance Failures
Character Technologies, the company behind the Character.AI companion chatbot platform, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 12, 2026, in the U.S.
EU AI Office Opens First AI Act Probes into OpenAI and Anthropic Over Agent Security Incidents
The European Commission’s AI Office has begun its first formal enforcement activity under the EU AI Act by sending requests for information…
Burger King Japan Data Breach Exposes 11 Million App Records Amid Wave of QSR Privacy Incidents
Burger King Japan has confirmed that attackers accessed a server holding roughly 11.18 million customer records from its official smartphone app, the…
State Attorneys General Demand Child Safety and Consumer Protections in Character.AI Bankruptcy
A bipartisan coalition of roughly 40 state attorneys general has told a Delaware bankruptcy court that Character.AI cannot use Chapter 11 to…
AI’s Next Bottleneck Isn’t Compute or Power. It’s Insurance.
It’s time to examine a quiet but growing problem: the artificial-intelligence industry is generating risks faster than the insurance market can price…
Africa’s Privacy Laws Are Entering a New Phase of Enforcement, AI Governance and Cross-Border Data Rules
Africa’s digital economy is growing quickly enough that privacy regulation can no longer be treated as a secondary compliance issue for companies…
Washington AG Says State Is ‘Behind Where We Should Be’ on Comprehensive Privacy Law
Washington Attorney General Nick Brown says one of the country’s largest technology hubs still has significant work to do on consumer privacy,…