Security researchers found a major security flaw in India’s income tax portal in September that potentially exposed sensitive personal data to anyone who logged into the system and searched for another person’s data. It’s unknown how many, if any, records were compromised before the bug was fixed.
According to research from brand visibility platform Yext, when someone Gemini, ChatGPT, or Perplexity a direct question, such as “What [category] is near me?”, over 40% of citations are from company websites. However, when the question is subjective, such as “What is the best [category]?”, ChatGPT shifts to third-party directories instead. Yext’s conclusion is that brands should “control their narrative” with factual information to better serve direct queries.
Eyes Up and ICEBlock are apps that were used to check ICE abuses. Both were just removed from Apple’s app store according to their developers, and Apple has not commented.
Data movement platform Fivetran (which bought the Census CDP in May) has announced a merger with dbt Labs, a data transformation framework. Together, the companies will automate data management without being restricted to a single model. They call this “open data infrastructure.”