Google won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines’ emails, chats and documents, paying $10 million for the materials. The records are associated with Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy proceedings. The available information identifies the purchased materials as emails, chats and documents. It does not specify the date range of the records, the number of files involved, how Google plans to use them, or whether the materials include customer, employee or operational data.

License plate reader searches of historically cached data should require a warrant, as determined by a judge in the case Schmidt v City of Norfolk. This ruling emphasizes the need for reasonable use of technology by police departments.

99% of traffic on the PatronView website consists of bots. The site owner has implemented various firewall rules to combat scrapers and has shared insights from a year of battling automated traffic.

Big tech companies like Google and Facebook create predictive profiles of users and sell this data to advertisers, influencing individual behavior for commercial and political purposes. Surveillance capitalism reshapes society without public awareness or consent.

Claude can inadvertently leak personal information, including full names, employers, and answers to security questions, during conversations. A demonstration revealed that sensitive data was sent to an attacker without any alerts or warnings.

Samsung requires users to consent to the use of their health data for AI training or risk permanent deletion of that data. A new toggle in the Samsung Health app allows the company to use personal health metrics for training and algorithm refinement.

@XBToshi Okay, grok has uploaded my entire user directory to xAI's servers. It contains my SSH keys, my password manager database, my documents, photos, videos, everything... https://t.co/s8eSs9DGzF

The European Parliament voted 331 to 304 to reactivate the "Chat Control" initiative, allowing for indiscriminate scanning of chat messages. This decision came through a procedural motion introduced by Parliament President Roberta Metsola.

Meta has paused an internal AI training program after sensitive employee data, including private conversations and performance metrics, was leaked across the company. The incident has been classified as a SEV 2, and Meta is currently investigating the breach.

every public Notion page is leaking the email addresses of everyone who edited it. zero authentication. no cookies. no tokens. one POST request returns full names, emails, and profile photos for every editor on the page. your company wiki is public? every employee's email is