Google has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a long-running lawsuit by parents and their children claiming its YouTube video app collected data from millions of U.S. kids under 13 so it could target ...

The agency’s response to public records requests indicated potential violations of federal records laws, experts said. By Minho Kim Reporting from Washington The Department of Homeland Security ...

WASHINGTON — He’s the Tech Veep. Vice President JD Vance successfully negotiated to have the UK to drop its demand to access Apple user data during rounds of conversations with the British government, ...

A message on an iPhone in London warning that Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP) to its customers in the UK. (Photo by Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images) In an embarrassing ...

Millions of users of Meta Platforms‘ META Facebook in the U.S. are set to receive their long-awaited compensation for a data privacy breach that occurred over a decade. The distribution of the ...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected an effort by a group of labor unions to block President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from accessing potentially sensitive ...

Reddit recently learned AI firms were using the Wayback Machine to scrape user data and will now limit its access to just the homepage. Reddit is limiting access to the Internet Archive after finding ...

The latest generative AI models are not just stand-alone text-generating chatbots—instead, they can easily be hooked up to your data to give personalized answers to your questions. OpenAI’s ChatGPT ...

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Google is indexing conversations with ChatGPT that users have sent to friends, families, or colleagues—turning private exchanges intended for small groups into search results visible to millions. A ...

Last week, the dating safety app Tea experienced a data breach, exposing 72,000 sensitive images containing selfies and photo IDs for account verification, as well as images from posts and messages.

Last week, the two-year-old social media app Tea, which functions as a Yelp-style platform where women can anonymously rate and review real men who cannot access the app nor respond, experienced an ...