The data of 2.9 billion people is at risk from one of the largest-ever breaches. This is due to a hack of data records provider, National Public Data, a company that specializes in background checks and fraud prevention. The hacker group offered the international data on the dark web for ~$3.5 million, and the compromised data includes names, addresses and social security numbers.
Only 13% of companies restrict the corporate data that can be used in AI models and over 30% have no restrictions at all on users, apps or data, according to this Komprise survey of 300 global enterprise IT leaders. Nearly one-third (32%) are building proprietary learning models. In part it’s a staffing problem: 60% say they need more staff skilled in security, compliance and sensitive data.
Activist group noyb has filed complaints in Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Poland looking to force Elon Musk’s X to suspend or restrict processing the personal data of EU user posts to AI-train Grok. The complaints were filed because the group felt Ireland’s Data Protection Committee (DPC) wasn’t getting to the core of the problem to ensure X will be fully investigated for GDPR compliance.
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.