In Brief: Washington State unemployment records compromised in a breach
Records of 1.6M exposed, including Social Security numbers and banking data.
Records of 1.6M exposed, including Social Security numbers and banking data.
Warning that use of facial recognition technology poses a risk to individual privacy and can negatively affect human dignity and rights, the Council specified that it should only be employed on an appropriate legal basis. They said it should not be used in uncontrolled environments; in ways that may promote racial, sexual or religious discrimination; or to determine personality traits, sentiments, or personal mental health.
Data compiler V12 is also targeting consumers based on recent shopping behaviors. Their new product is Vistas, which assigns people to one of five shopping types based on recent activities. People are also assigned to consumer groups using conventional demographics.
If you still think that MCP stands for Male Chauvinist Pig, well, the 1970’s want their disco ball back. Today’s hep cats know that MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, a new-but-widely supported standard that lets large language models access structured data as context for their prompts. Early adopters include Salesforce and Adobe, and search platform Algolia is now using it to feed their data to customer-facing real-time AI agents.