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Data linked to professional licenses may be affected by potential Washington state breach

GeekWire

Professionals attempting to renew their license in Washington state are redirected to information on a possible security breach. The data of professionals licensed with Washington state may have been compromised, according to the agency that issues such licenses. 24, according to a statement released last week.

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What telco mobile money licenses mean for Nigeria’s financial services sector

CIO Business Intelligence

That may change as telecommunications companies such as Airtel and MTN jump into the mobile money market, after recently receiving licenses to do so. It was only late last year that Nigeria’s Central Bank (CBN), gave the green light for telcos to acquire mobile money licenses. Mobile money is not entirely new to Nigeria.

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A poster’s guide to who’s selling your data to train AI 

Vox

If you’ve ever posted anything on the internet, chances are that your data has already been scraped, collected, and used to train AI systems like the ones powering ChatGPT, Midjourney , and Sora. Generative AI is designed to succeed as a generalist, and learning to do so, OpenAI has said, requires “ internet-scale ” data to train on.

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A Geico Data Breach Let Cyber Fraudsters Steal Customers' Driver's License Numbers

Gizmodo

Car insurance giant Geico has quietly disclosed that a recent security breach allowed cyber thieves to steal customers’ driver’s license information right off the company’s website. Read more.

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The Legal Challenges of the Internet of Things

CTOvision

These days, just about everything and every organization collects data. From cars to medical devices, personal data is everywhere. The problem is, it is easier than ever for manufacturers to integrate data storage, but oftentimes the privacy and legal repercussions of the Internet of Things (IoT) are not considered.

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France says Google, Microsoft cloud services are OK for sensitive data

Venture Beast

France said its state and corporate data can be stored on Google and Microsoft's cloud services which have been licensed to French companies. Read More.

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100 Million T-Mobile Accounts Potentially Compromised in Data Breach

SecureWorld News

T-Mobile is investigating a post made on an underground forum that claims 100 million user accounts have been compromised in a data breach. The hacker, who spoke with VICE's Motherboard in an online chat, said the data came from T-Mobile USA and involves "full customer info.". They are also selling the rest of the data privately.

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