Vietnam’s Law on Personal Data Protection (PDP) passed with 94% approval. The regulation has been expedited to go live July 1 to provide robust regulation of data use. Vietnam’s Standing Committee has recommended amendments to reinforce guidelines on international data transfers and to establish a national database to share data resources.
Two US government agencies are recommending citizens consider using encrypted communications apps in the wake of one of the largest intelligence compromises in the country’s history. Companies including AT&T, Verizon and Lumen Technologies were hacked prior to the election by what is believed to have been China, though it denies involvement. The breach included access to mass call records, metadata, and phone calls. The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) don’t know how long it will take to fix, so those wanting privacy should act.
No need to rush, apparently, in the face of child pornography abuse. But, after years thinking it over, Telegram decided to join Google’s YouTube and others, in actively using tools to “detect, disrupt, remove, and block” child sexual abuse imagery. That’s good given the platform has 950+ million active users/month. Sooner would have been even better.
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.