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Two transgender girls in New Hampshire brought the first legal action against President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender athletes in women’s sports on Wednesday. The amended complaint is an expansion of a lawsuit filed last August, after a state bill prohibiting transgender girls from participating in female sports was signed into law. Last September, a…
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Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), a popular data breach notification service, has expressed a strong inclination to ban resellers from obtaining platform memberships. Troy Hunt made this decision after thoroughly examining the excessive support burden these resellers impose on the service. HIBP is a collectivel that allows users to check whether their personal information, such…
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The wrongful-firing lawsuit filed against Amazon Web Services in the UK has gained a new life. An October dismissal of the case was overturned, and the suit formally began Monday. Ex-employee Charles Forrest accuses AWS EMEA SARL, of wrongly dismissing him for blowing the whistle internally on purported illegal sales of AWS facial recognition software…
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More Australian states and territories have now banned the Chinese-developed DeepSeek products, applications, and web services on government devices, citing serious security vulnerabilities that could expose sensitive data. The decision follows a federal directive from the Australian Department of Home Affairs on Feb. 4, noting that DeepSeek “poses an unacceptable level of security risk” due…
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Governments Are Skeptical of Chinese A1 Platform’s Data Security ControlsCountries across Asia are racing to ban government officials, national agencies and critical infrastructure organizations from using Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek’s open-source chatbot application, citing data security and privacy risks.
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Governments Are Skeptical of Chinese A1 Platform’s Data Security ControlsCountries across Asia are racing to ban government officials, national agencies and critical infrastructure organizations from using Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek’s open-source chatbot application, citing data security and privacy risks.
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Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence and Beijing DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence, which support the chatbot service, have been sought by Garante to provide details not only on the types of gathered personal information, used sources, and server locations but also the purpose and legal basis of such data gathering process within 20 days.
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Texas bans DeepSeek and RedNote on government devices to block Chinese data-harvesting AI, citing security risks. Texas Governor Greg Abbott banned Chinese AI company DeepSeek and Chinese-owned social media apps Xiaohongshu (RedNote) and Lemon8 from all state-issued devices. The AI-powered chatbot, recently launched globally, has rapidly gained popularity reaching millions of users. Texas is the…
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The Israeli ban on the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) on Thursday came into effect despite criticism and backlash, impacting the work of the organization in Gaza and the West Bank. In October of 2024, the Israeli Parliament passed two laws mandating the cessation of UNRWA operations in Gaza and the West Bank,…
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Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump on Tuesday after he signed an executive order Monday to ban transgender people serving in the US Armed Forces. The executive order, Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness, states: “Consistent with the military mission and longstanding DoD policy, expressing a false…
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… against large scale ransomware by Interpol (here). The Council has issued …
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… against large scale ransomware by Interpol (here). The Council has issued …
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post: Sources outline negotiations between the Biden administration and TikTok ahead of the ban, as company insiders refute claims that a blackout helped their case — When TikTok pleaded with outgoing Biden officials and threatened to go offline, the White House pushed back, declaring it all a “stunt.”
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New York Times: The TikTok ban forced a dilemma on US tech companies: risk alienating a mercurial president or risk breaking federal law and face up to billions in penalties — The federal law banning TikTok has revealed a major schism among American tech companies: Some are willing to flout the law — and some,…
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Such signing was accompanied by Trump’s suggestion of government co-ownership of TikTok’s U.S. business while threatening China with potential tariffs should a U.S. deal for the social media platform fail.
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The ruling could have implications for other foreign-owned applications.
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The ruling could have implications for other foreign-owned applications.
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The US Supreme Court upheld the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” on Friday. This confirms that the application TikTok will be banned on Sunday. The act makes it unlawful for any entity to distribute a “foreign adversary controlled application” in the US. It explicitly singles out ByteDance Ltd, the parent company of TikTok.…
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images In his first statement since the Supreme Court upheld a law that could ban TikTok from the US on Sunday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew offered no insight into what would happen to the app in just a few days. Instead, he took the opportunity to appeal…