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DOGE can keep accessing government data for now, judge rules
A US federal judge declined to block Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing or transferring…
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DOGE is trying to access the IRS’s data on millions of taxpayers
The Department of Government Efficiency has requested access to the Internal Revenue Service’s taxpayer data system — potentially giving it…
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Trump administration illegally allowed DOGE to access workers’ data, lawsuit alleges
The Trump administration breached a federal privacy law by letting workers from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access…
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Donald Trump’s data purge has begun
Key resources for environmental data and public health have already been taken down from federal websites, and more could soon…
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MGM will pay $45 million to settle data breach lawsuit
MGM Resorts International has agreed to pay $45 million to settle a lawsuit over data breaches that collectively exposed the…
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The Stargate Project is a $500 million AI data center plan for OpenAI
A plan to build a system of data centers for artificial intelligence has been revealed in a White House press…
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GM banned from selling your driving data for five years
The settlement comes after a New York Times investigation found that GM had been collecting micro-details about its customers’ driving…
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Volkswagen leak exposed location data for 800,000 electric cars
For months, the location information of around 800,000 electric Volkswagen vehicles was available online due to a data leak, according…
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The US proposes rules to make healthcare data more secure
The US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is proposing new cybersecurity requirements for…
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Hackers hijacked legitimate Chrome extensions to try to steal data
A cyberattack campaign inserted malicious code into multiple Chrome browser extensions as far back as mid-December, Reuters reported yesterday. The…
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The FTC orders Marriott and Starwood to beef up their data security
The Federal Trade Commission announced on Friday it finalized an order (pdf) requiring Marriott International and subsidiary Starwood Hotels to…
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Google’s future data centers will be built next to solar and wind farms
In what it’s calling a “first-of-its-kind partnership,” Google will collaborate with developers to build data centers powered by renewable energy…
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