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In Brief: China claims it’s cracked Apple AirDrop code

Apple has not confirmed this, but officials in Beijing claim they can access information including email addresses and phone numbers. Security researchers have also claimed the encryption codes Apple uses for AirDrop aren’t sufficiently secure.

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Children’s Privacy: Denmark DPA rules Google should not get its student data

February 13, 2024

Datatilsynet, Denmark’s data protection agency, has ordered 53 municipalities throughout the country to change their data processing process to stop transferring student data to Google unless there’s a legal basis. Data of primary students which had been sent to Google previously had been used for commercial purposes in violation of Denmark’s and GDPR’s privacy laws.

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58% of Consumers Worry AI Will Not Protect Their Data: Merkle

February 12, 2024

It’s easy for marketers to confuse personalized marketing with personalized services, but consumers don’t make that mistake.  Merkle reports that consumers rate personalized emails, messages and advertisements as low impact but rate personalized product/service recommendations as high impact.  Their top worry about AI is data protection (58% highly concerned), beating out being recorded by the technology (51%), putting people out of work (50%) and even providing correct answers (46%).

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