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In the news...
- Rabbit r1's AI Assistant Has Secretly Been Storing User Chats that Can't Be Deleted [zdnet.com]
Rabbit, the startup behind the AI-powered personal assistant device, revealed that their r1 device "has been logging user chats on the device with no way to erase them. This means that if you lost your r1, someone stole it, or you sold it, your chat logs could have potentially been visible to someone else. Users hadn't been made aware that any conversations with the device were being logged." The company announced "a software update fixing the issue will download and install automatically."
- Google Makes Changes to Privacy Oversight, Worrying Policymakers [politico.com]
"At least six of Google’s top privacy and regulatory officials have left the company in recent months, and a key oversight team was disbanded, according to interviews and a POLITICO review of records. That’s leading to concerns among policymakers that one of the world’s most powerful tech companies is releasing new artificial intelligence products without sufficient protections for users."
- AT&T Says Phone Data of ‘Nearly All’ Customers Was Breached in 2022 [nytimes.com]
"A cyberattack on the telecommunications giant AT&T exposed phone records from 'nearly all' of its customers but did not compromise the content of calls or texts, the company said Friday." AT&T said it will "notify current and former customers whose information was involved in the breach, it added."
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