Reuters reports: Dutch-based copyright enforcement group BREIN has taken down a large language dataset that was being offered for use in training AI models, the organization said on Tuesday. The dataset included information collected without permission from tens of thousands of books, news sites, and Dutch language subtitles harvested from “countless” films and TV series,…
Category: Breaches
Nearly 3 Billion Records Leaked in Alleged National Public Data Breach
A breach of National Public Data first announced in April is making news again in August as lawsuits start to pile on. The data breach may be one of the biggest breaches affecting Americans, Canadians, and UK persons. If you never heard of National Public Data, do not breathe a quick sigh of relief. You…
Albuquerque Woman Admits Guilt in Multi-Year Cyberstalking and Identity Theft Scheme
ALBUQUERQUE – An Albuquerque woman pleaded guilty in federal court to a series of crimes involving cyberstalking, computer intrusion and false reporting to law enforcement that spanned several years. According to court documents, from March 2016 to December 2019, Kalani S. Uehara, 26, engaged in a campaign of harassment and intimidation against multiple victims. Uehara assumed the identities of…
DPC takes court action against Twitter over AI data concerns
RTÉ reports: The Data Protection Commission has launched High Court proceedings against Twitter International Unlimited Company over concerns about how the personal data of millions of European users of the “X” platform is being processed. The DPC says it concerns centre around the use of this data, in public posts by X users, in European…