Oxford University Hit by Second Data Breach in Weeks as Career Platform Exposes Student Records Oxford University is dealing with its second significant data breach in as many months, and this one has nothing to do with the Canvas platform incident that made headlines in May. The latest exposure... Cybersecurity Data Breach Higher Education Privacy Security Jun 6, 2026
Meta Secretly Embedded Face-Recognition Code in Smart Glasses App on 50 Million Phones A WIRED investigation has revealed that Meta has quietly embedded unreleased face-recognition technology into the Meta AI mobile app, which has been installed on more than 50 million phones worldwide.... AI Ethics Biometrics Cybersecurity Meta Privacy Jun 4, 2026
Ring's AI Face Recognition Feature Draws Federal Class Action Over Covert Surveillance Amazon's Ring smart doorbell division is facing a federal class action lawsuit that alleges its AI-powered facial recognition feature, called Familiar Faces, captures and stores biometric data from vi... Amazon Cybersecurity Facial Recognition Privacy Ring Jun 3, 2026
FROST Attack: How Websites Can Now Profile Your Hard Drive Through the Browser Security researchers have disclosed a new browser-based side-channel attack called FROST that allows malicious websites to infer details about a user's hard drive using only standard JavaScript, with ... Browser Security Cybersecurity Privacy Web Jun 1, 2026
ShinyHunters Breach Forces Canvas Offline and Exposes Student Data The popular learning management system Canvas went dark this week after hackers claiming affiliation with the notorious ShinyHunters group threatened to leak sensitive student data stolen from its par... Cybersecurity Data Breach EdTech Privacy ShinyHunters May 7, 2026
Google Chrome Is Quietly Installing a 4 GB Local AI Model on User Devices Millions of Google Chrome users woke up this week to find their computers had received an unrequested guest: a four-gigabyte large language model quietly installed through a routine browser update. Th... AI Chrome Enterprise IT Google Privacy May 7, 2026
Healthcare Marketplace Tracking Report Rekindles Privacy Questions Around Ad Tech A new report is putting website tracking technology back under the microscope, this time in one of the most sensitive settings: state-run health insurance marketplaces. TechCrunch, citing a Bloomberg ... Ad Tech Compliance Cybersecurity Healthcare IT Privacy May 4, 2026
OpenAI Cookie Defaults Put ChatGPT Privacy Back in the Spotlight Published May 2, 2026, US Central. Wired reported that OpenAI’s privacy policy now describes marketing cookies being enabled by default for free ChatGPT users. The detail may sound small compared with... AI OpenAI Policy Privacy SaaS May 2, 2026
Minnesota’s AI Nude App Ban Raises the Stakes for Platform Safety Minnesota is moving to put tougher limits on one of generative AI’s most harmful consumer use cases: apps that create fake nude images. Ars Technica reported today that the state passed a ban on fake ... AI Policy Generative AI Platform Safety Privacy May 1, 2026
Apple Ends Data Practice That Exposed Signal Metadata to Law Enforcement Apple has reportedly changed an internal data-handling practice that had created a path for law enforcement visibility into Signal-related metadata. According to Ars Technica, the update does not look... Apple Cybersecurity Privacy Signal Apr 24, 2026
Cellular Backbone Abuse Exposes a Global Location-Tracking Risk for Telecom and Enterprise Security Teams Published: Apr 23, 2026 08:33 AM CT (America/Chicago) New reporting highlighted by TechCrunch and based on Citizen Lab research points to a persistent weak point in global telecom infrastructure: surv... Cybersecurity Privacy Telecom Threat Intelligence Apr 23, 2026
Clarifai Deletes 3 Million OkCupid Photos, Reviving AI Data Consent and Governance Questions A decade-old data decision is still generating AI compliance consequences Clarifai has reportedly deleted around 3 million photos obtained from OkCupid, along with models trained on that data, followi... AI Ethics Data Governance FTC Facial Recognition Privacy Apr 21, 2026