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NZ Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) database: Breached 100x

One massive database. Info on nearly every New Zealander. More than 100 breaches (though many were minor). But that’s still small consolation to anyone whose data may be at risk.

Since 2013, IDI’s data trove has gathered information from government departments and shared information, including from Census surveys, with 1400 researchers – and the list keeps growing.

There have been more than 100 breaches since 2015, and the pace has been accelerating causing concern.

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Creatives stop UK AI data mining plans

February 7, 2023

Pushback from UK creatives have stalled aggressive government AI plans to override existing copyright law and allow broad use of text and data mining. Regulations currently allow developers and researchers to leverage disparate data sets to train algorithms, but access is not widely allowed for business because of risks of data getting into the hands of third parties. Now, the UK’s Intellectual Property Office’s (IPO) intention to extend existing access has hit a roadblock from the creative community, including music and publishing companies, which cited the need to protect copyrighted... Read More >

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IT’S THE LAW (02/27/2023)

February 7, 2023

The EU wants to get a move on with General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) oversight, to stop corporate negligence and infractions! No more waiting two, three and four plus years, as was the case with Meta and Google, for European regulators to issue decisions. Now, the European Commission will insist regulators handling large-scale cases that impact citizens in multiple countries provide the Commission with every-other-month progress reports.

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Google Again Delays Third-Party Cookie Deprecation

April 25, 2024

Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation.  The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.

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