Think Meta and Google are protecting your collected data? Not much, shows a new survey from data cleaning company Incogni – and businesses should be concerned. Both companies scored at the bottom and were shown to collect sensitive data and share with unknown third parties. One reason this happens is employees don’t realize generative AI tools can allow proprietary data to factor into data training sets.
Japan introduced the Active Cyber Defense Law to amp up cybersecurity and pre-emptively tamp down digital threats “before they materialize.” The intent is to “equal or exceed” cyber capabilities of the EU and US and address increased frequency of threats.
NetChoice is back swinging to try to stop two Arkansas social media laws that would limit content and would allow parents of kids who killed themselves to sue over content. And in Georgia, a federal judge responding to a NetChoice challenge blocked enforcement of a new law that would require age verification and says users under age 16 need parental consent to join.
The web search tool Perplexity looks like it’s taking on Google with its latest release, a web browser named Comet. Comet claims to move “from browsing to thinking,” surfacing information and search results in response to natural language queries. Comet is available immediately to Perplexity Max subscribers; others can join a wait list.