https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66993647
The US government has issued its first ever fine to a company for leaving space junk orbiting the Earth.
The Federal Communications Commission fined Dish Network $150,000 (£125,000) for failing to move an old satellite far enough away from others in use.
All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label — making cars the official worst category of products for privacy that we have ever reviewed.
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We reviewed 25 car brands in our research and we handed out 25 “dings” for how those companies collect and use data and personal information. That’s right: every car brand we looked at collects more personal data than necessary and uses that information for a reason other than to operate your vehicle and manage their relationship with you.
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It’s bad enough for the behemoth corporations that own the car brands to have all that personal information in their possession, to use for their own research, marketing, or the ultra-vague “business purposes.” But then, most (84%) of the car brands we researched say they can share your personal data — with service providers, data brokers, and other businesses we know little or nothing about. Worse, nineteen (76%) say they can sell your personal data.
Irish data regulator says platform put 13- to 17-year-old users’ accounts on default public setting, among other breaches
https://nrkbeta.no/2023/09/06/datatilsynet-vant-frem-i-oslo-tingrett-mot-meta/
Tidligere i august møttes Datatilsynet og Meta i Oslo tingrett for å avgjøre om teknologigiganten må følge et vedtak om å betale dagsbøter på én million kroner. Det skjer etter at Datatilsynet i sommer beordret Meta, som eier Facebook og Instagram, å stoppe bruken av persondata til såkalt adferdsbasert markedsføring inntil selskapet gjør det på en lovlig måte.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/23/cloudnordic-azero-cloud-host-ransomware/
In a notice on its website translated from Danish, CloudNordic said: “The attackers succeeded in encrypting all servers’ disks, as well as on the primary and secondary backup system, whereby all machines crashed and we lost access to all data.”
Fra tirsdag skal kunstig intelligens (KI) vurdere røntgenbilder når det er mistanke om mindre bruddskader.
Microsoft laid off journalists at Microsoft News and MSN in 2020 to replace them with artificial intelligence.