In Brief: Desjardins FinTech breach is largest in Canada, affecting 9.7M people
Malicious employee siphoned data for 2 years.
Malicious employee siphoned data for 2 years.
Skyflow raises $17.5M in series A funding for privacy vault technology Skyflow loads sensitive customer data into a cloud-based vault so companies don’t have to store it for themselves. Information is encrypted, enabling companies can analyze it without exposing the underlying data.
Vienna-based watchdog FRA has requested guidance from the EU on how its current rules apply to AI for “high-risk sectors,” including healthcare and transportation. In part, the agency wants to ensure that people can approve decisions made by AI and require companies to explain how their systems utilize AI.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.