Graham Cluley writes: Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, has been found to exhibit more alarming behaviour – this time revealing the home addresses of ordinary people upon request. […] Reporters at Futurism fed the names of 33 non-public individuals into the free web version of Grok, with extremely minimal prompts such as…
PRIVACY—S.D. Cal.: Employee did not waive privacy right in personal email data on company provided laptop, (Dec 5, 2025)
Kathleen Kapusta, J.D. writes: The company’s request to review data spanning more than 15 years, nearly 10 times the length of her employment with the company, was “patently unreasonable and overbroad.” A former analyst for a security operations provider who added her personal email account to her employer provided laptop did not waive her constitutional…
EU justice chief draws red line on privacy reforms
Ellen O’Regan reports: The European Commission went as far as it could with its pro-business data protection reforms without putting Europeans’ privacy on the line, the bloc’s justice chief told POLITICO in an interview. Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath said Europe was entering “a time of significant change after a period of stability” for data privacy,…
Kaiser Permanente to Pay Up to $47.5M in Web Tracker Lawsuit
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: Kaiser Permanente has agreed to pay up to $47.5 million to settle consolidated class action litigation stemming from its use of tracking codes in its websites, patient portals and mobile apps. Claimants alleged the trackers unlawfully shared patients’ information with third parties, including Google, Microsoft and X – formerly Twitter. California-based…