BBC News reports on how quantum computing may prove to be a more powerful technology despite being overshadowed by the AI boom. The convergence of quantum and AI raises great potential, however, Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst in Emerging…
University of Southhampton Professor Pete Fussey raised concerns about potential bias within the U.K. Metropolitan Police’s live facial recognition technology, the Guardian reports. Despite the Met’s claims of improvements to its biometrics system after a review from the National Physical…
Denmark is expected to pass a law next year changing the country’s copyright laws to ban the circulation of deepfake images, The Associated Press reports. The proposed law would provide individuals with copyright protections over their own likeness while protecting…
Poland-based companies, including loan platform SuperGrosz and payment system Blik, experienced cyberattacks that allegedly breached consumers’ personal data as malicious actors target the country’s infrastructure, The Record reports. Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski claimed the security incidents are becoming “commonplace,”…
The European Commission held a plenary meeting for developing a voluntary code of practice for marking and labeling AI-generated content. Under the EU AI Act, developers and deployers of certain AI systems face transparency requirements, such as labeling AI-generated text…
Threat intelligence firm ReliaQuest is seeing more cloud attacks traced back to “identity-related weaknesses” such as excessive permissions, misconfigured roles and credential abuse, Infosecurity Magazine reports. The report found credentials for cloud services are easily sold on the dark web…
In an op-ed for The Parliament magazine, Member of European Parliament Arba Kokalari said the EU should take a holistic approach to AI regulations and focus on simplifying regulations to ensure there is not a regulatory overlap and issues with…
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission released use case guidance detailing an example where a consumer requested their data be deleted while a data controller was implementing a new data processing system, causing complications over the consumer’s right to have their data…
An investigation by EU media outlets L’Echo, Le Monde, Netzpolitik.org, BNR nieuwsradio and German public broadcasters allegedly found data brokers are selling EU officials’ location information, Politico reports. While the data is considered to be anonymous, sensitive location data could…
After sharing insights into the professional journeys of six early-, mid- and late-career privacy professionals on LinkedIn, BlueSky Privacy CEO and founder Teresa Troester-Falk, CIPP/US, writes in an op-ed that “privacy careers rarely move in a straight line” and that…