Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Privacy

Microsoft's ICC email block reignites European data sovereignty concerns (computerweekly.com)
During his recent visit to Brussels, Microsoft chief Brad Smith committed his company to defending European interests from ‘geopolitical volatility’, including the impact of potential US administration interventions.

Microsoft, Data Privacy, Europe, Geopolitics, Regulations

8 points by doener 30 days ago | 0 comments

Papua New Guinea threatened DDoSecrets with legal action over MRA data (bsky.app)

Legal Issues, Data Privacy, DDoSecrets

8 points by hn_acker 31 days ago | 1 comments

One of Britain's largest health trusts says 'no ta' to Palantir data platform (theregister.com)
Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board (ICB) has decided not to adopt a national data platform – prescribed by the UK government and run by Palantir – until it has more evidence of the benefits and risks.

Healthcare, Data Privacy, Government, Technology, UK

8 points by rntn 35 days ago | 2 comments

America's consumer watchdog drops leash on proposed data broker crackdown (theregister.com)
Uncle Sam's consumer watchdog has scrapped plans to implement Biden-era rules that would've treated certain data brokers as credit bureaus, forcing them to follow stricter laws when flogging Americans' sensitive data.

Data Privacy, Government Regulations, Consumer Protection

23 points by rntn 41 days ago | 5 comments

China has reportedly stolen personal data from 80% of Americans (bgr.com)
Current estimates are that 80% of American adults have had all of their personally identifiable information stolen by the Communist Party of China

Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, China, United States, Government

6 points by beeflet 42 days ago | 1 comments

EU preliminarily finds TikTok's ad repository in breach of Digital Services Act (europa.eu)

EU, Social Media, TikTok, Data Privacy

15 points by doener 43 days ago | 0 comments

Google restores Nextcloud users file access on Android (arstechnica.com)
Nextcloud, a host-your-own cloud platform that wants to help you "regain control over your data," has had to tell its Android-using customers for months now that they cannot upload files from their phone to their own servers.

Nextcloud, Android, Cloud Storage, Data Privacy

49 points by mrbigbob 43 days ago | 6 comments

Palantir's NHS data platform rejected by most hospitals (democracyforsale.substack.com)

Healthcare, Data Privacy, Government, Technology, UK

9 points by RobAley 43 days ago | 0 comments

Airlines Are Collecting Your Data and Selling It to ICE (levernews.com)
A massive aviation industry clearinghouse that processes data for 12 billion passenger flights per year is selling that information to the Trump administration amid the White House’s new immigration crackdown, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.

Data Privacy, Immigration, Airlines, Government Surveillance

7 points by SergeAx 47 days ago | 3 comments

EU abandons ePrivacy reform to boost AI competitiveness (techcrunch.com)
A long-stalled bid to beef up European Union rules around online tracking technologies and put penalties on a similar footing to the bloc’s data protection framework, GDPR, has been withdrawn by the Commission after co-legislators failed to reach agreement over the plan.

EU, Data Privacy, AI, Regulations, Competition

9 points by bit_qntum 48 days ago | 0 comments

Google agrees to pay $1.4B data privacy settlement to Texas (cnbc.com)

Google, Data Privacy, Lawsuits, Settlements, Texas

14 points by mfiguiere 49 days ago | 0 comments

Former Palantir workers condemn company's work with Trump administration (npr.org)
Thirteen former employees of influential data-mining firm Palantir are condemning the company's work with the Trump administration weeks after Immigration and Customs Enforcement reached a deal to pay Palantir $30 million to provide the agency with "near real-time visibility" into the movement of migrants in the U.S.

Politics, Technology, Data Privacy, Immigration, Government Contracts

17 points by coderatlarge 49 days ago | 1 comments

Google Starts Scanning All Your Emails After Gmail Upgrade (forbes.com)
Google is changing Gmail. Putting aside the procession of recent attacks, some of which seemed to come from Google itself, the biggest threat could come from within. This leaves 2 billion users of the world’s most popular email platform with a decision to make — and that decision is getting more critical and more difficult.

Google, Email Privacy, Security, Data Privacy

5 points by l7l 49 days ago | 1 comments

SoundCloud ToS: You explicitly agree that your Content may be used to train AI (bsky.app)

SoundCloud, AI, Data Privacy, Music

9 points by healsdata 49 days ago | 1 comments

Psibase: Protocol that enables communities to "self-host" a web app ecosystem (psibase.io)
Increasingly, individuals need online applications that they can self-host in order to protect their data, guarantee the app's future availability, and eliminate censorship concerns.

Web3, Decentralization, Community, Software, Data Privacy

14 points by sea-gold 51 days ago | 1 comments

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Doge View Social Security Data (nytimes.com)
The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to let members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have access to sensitive records of the Social Security Administration.

Politics, Law, Social Security, Data Privacy

11 points by ChrisArchitect 56 days ago | 1 comments

Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next (theatlantic.com)
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.

Politics, Data Privacy, Surveillance, Trump Administration

12 points by jaredwiener 61 days ago | 1 comments

Blue Shield shared the private health data of millions with Google for years (techcrunch.com)
Health insurance giant Blue Shield of California is notifying millions of people of a data breach. The company confirmed on Wednesday that it had been sharing patients’ private health information with tech and advertising giant Google since 2021.

Data Privacy, Health Insurance, Google, Data Breaches

9 points by coloneltcb 65 days ago | 2 comments

GM Argues It Can Sell Your Data Because You Drive on Public Roads (motor1.com)

Data Privacy, Automotive, Law, Technology

12 points by cebert 67 days ago | 5 comments

Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI (theregister.com)
A group of 48 House Democrats is concerned that Elon Musk's cost-trimmers at DOGE are being careless in their use of AI to help figure out where to slash, creating security risks and giving the oligarch's artificial intelligence lab an inside track to train its models on government info.

Politics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Security

27 points by rntn 69 days ago | 1 comments

Apple now uses data from bug reports for AI training (appleinsider.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Apple, Data Privacy, Software Development

10 points by giuliomagnifico 70 days ago | 0 comments

China's DeepSeek Poses 'Profound Threat' to National Security,House Report Claim (forbes.com)
A bipartisan House panel released a report Wednesday accusing DeepSeek of posing a “profound threat” to U.S. national security, alleging the Chinese AI startup harvests user data on behalf of the Chinese government, as efforts to ban DeepSeek have escalated in recent months amid national security concerns.

China, National Security, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Government

5 points by abacussh 72 days ago | 2 comments

You cannot have our user's data (sourcehut.org)
As you may have noticed, SourceHut has deployed Anubis to parts of our services to protect ourselves from aggressive LLM crawlers.

Data Privacy, AI, Open Source

116 points by Tomte 73 days ago | 109 comments

Revealed: Chinese researchers can access half a million UK GP records (theguardian.com)
Researchers from China are to be allowed access to half a million UK GP records despite western intelligence agencies’ fears about the authoritarian regime amassing health data, the Guardian can reveal.

Data Privacy, Health Data, China, UK, Government

7 points by ndsipa_pomu 73 days ago | 5 comments

Data Protection Commission Announces commencement of inquiry into X (dataprotection.ie)
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced the commencement of an inquiry into the processing of personal data comprised in publicly-accessible posts posted on the ‘X’ social media platform by EU/EEA users, for the purposes of training generative artificial intelligence models, in particular the Grok Large Language Models (LLMs).

Data Privacy, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence, Europe

6 points by rntn 74 days ago | 0 comments

U.S. human data repositories 'under review' for gender identity descriptors (thetransmitter.org)
The U.S. government is reviewing federally funded repositories of human data to ensure they comply with a recent executive order on gender identity, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter.

Government, Data Privacy, Gender Identity, Technology, Human Data

9 points by SubiculumCode 78 days ago | 5 comments

Trump Wants to Merge Government Data. Here Are Things It Might Know About You (nytimes.com)
The federal government knows your mother’s maiden name and your bank account number. The student debt you hold. Your disability status. The company that employs you and the wages you earn there. And that’s just a start.

Politics, Data Privacy, Government, Surveillance

8 points by instagib 79 days ago | 1 comments

Tell HN: Amazon order info is getting sold (ycombinator.com)
Today from Amazon, I bought an iPad (sold by Amazon.com) and an iPad cover (sold by ZMSolutions in receipt, TiMOVO in Amazon order page) in a single order at 10:11 AM EST. At 10:15 AM EST I received an obvious scam call asking if I authorize a MacBook Pro purchase from Amazon.

Data Privacy, Amazon, Scams

11 points by aleyan 79 days ago | 8 comments

UK creating 'murder prediction' tool to identify people most likely to kill (theguardian.com)
The UK government is developing a “murder prediction” programme which it hopes can use personal data of those known to the authorities to identify the people most likely to become killers.

Crime, Predictive Policing, Artificial Intelligence, Law Enforcement, Data Privacy

17 points by molteanu 80 days ago | 3 comments

Apple-UK data privacy row should not be secret, court rules (bbc.com)
A judge has sided with a coalition of civil liberties groups and news organisations - including the BBC - and ruled a legal row between the UK government and Apple over data privacy cannot be held in secret.

Data Privacy, Law, Apple, UK Government, News Media

7 points by colinprince 81 days ago | 0 comments