Three years after the fact, Samsung was alerted to a 2019-2020 data breach that exploited a vulnerability in a third-party application and exposed personal data of an unspecified number of customers who made purchases through its UK store. Samsung isn’t currently answering questions beyond its statement announcing the breach.
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has issued a report claiming that real-time bidding (RTB), the automated buying and selling of online ad impressions, is being used to target EU military personnel and political decision-makers. This after the ICCL analyzed tens of thousands of pages of RTB data and determined that it would be possible to match sensitive information collected about EU leaders with their location and other data and leave them vulnerable to blackmail or other harms.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland invested the first six judges of the new Data Protection Review Court (DPRC). The court, established to ensure compliance with the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), is tasked with ensuring that complaints from EU individuals claiming privacy violation from US intelligence agencies are properly redressed.
Adobe has expanded GenStudio’s AI capabilities with a Content Production Agent for scaling on-brand ads and emails based on marketing briefs. Other new tools for GenStudio include Firefly Creative Production for Enterprise and Firefly Services APIs for automating workflows. Adobe is also previewing Project Moonlight in Firefly, a conversational AI assistant for personalized recommendations based on creators’ social channels.