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Court to hear motions relating to HSE cyber victims Cork District Court is due to hear four motions later this week relating to compensation claims by victims of the HSE cyberattack.

It will be interesting to see what happens to this case and see what impact it could have for victims of data breaches in the fiture

Cork District Court is due to hear four motions later this week relating to compensation claims by victims of the HSE cyberattack.

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Snowdrops on 'the Graph' in St. Patrick's College #Maynooth, add in a splash of brightness between the many many splashes of rain. #Bloomscrolling

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Thank you for sharing. The detail required during procurement due diligence is key here "the following [third] countries in the sub-processor chain should have been the subject of an investigation before the municipalities entered into the contract with Google:" [translated from Danish]

In 2024, the Danish DPA sought the EDPB's opinion on Article 28 GDPR. The EDPB clarified that controllers must keep current records of all processors and sub-processors. The Danish DPA just published its decision on the use of Google's products in primary schools. www.datatilsynet.dk/afgoerelser/...

Emails. Messages. Calls. Posts.

Seen separately, they look harmless.

Together, they open the door to exploitation.

Awareness is the first line of defence: https://ow.ly/H2ni50Y626q

Agentic AI shares many data protection concerns with generative AI, but its features may worsen or add new issues. Singapore has introduced a Model AI governance framework specifically for agentic AI. www.linkedin.com/posts/luisal...

149 Million Usernames and Passwords Exposed by Unsecured Database This “dream wish list for criminals” includes millions of Gmail, Facebook, banking logins, and more. The researcher who discovered it suspects they were collected using infostealing malware.

NEW: A database left accessible to anyone online contained tens of millions of login credentials from Gmail, Facebook, Apple, OnlyFans, crypto accounts, and more. @lhn.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/149-mi...

Runa Sandvik's new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states | TechCrunch The Norwegian hacker talks about her new venture aimed at protecting journalists and critics from powerful adversaries.

I started Granitt in 2022 to help journalists and other groups of at-risk people continue to do their work safely and securely. Please get in touch if you’re looking for an assessment, policy and process development, training, or presentation. techcrunch.com/2022/07/15/g...

Cyberattack Targeting Poland’s Energy Grid Used a Wiper A cyberattack that targeted power plants and other energy producers in Poland at the end of December used malware known as a “wiper” that was intended to erase computers and cause a power outage and o...

Exclusive: A cyberattack targeting Poland's energy infrastructure in December used wiper malware that would have erased grid computers and rendered them inoperable had it not been thwarted, a researcher at @ESET told me. The researcher calls the attack "unprecedented" for Poland and "substantial"

Go on you good thing @cmatbaby.bsky.social

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A note from your friendly bookseller watching the #LateLateToyShow – here are all the books featured so you can show your local bookshop exactly which one you’re looking for 📚

Be sure to follow #BookElves2025 for more book recommendations all week long!

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This is ART. Someone give the #LateLateToyShow producers a raise.

Toy Show: This is Child 1

Ireland: I would die for Child 1

Toy Show: Goodbye Child 1. Now welcome Child 2

Ireland: Never mind, Child 1 is dead to me. I love Child 2 now.

#Toyshow #LateLateToyShow

Finally had a chance to write up the CJEU's Russmedia ruling which appears to make it literally *impossible* to run a website in the EU that allows any user content. I just don't see how compliance is possible. At all. Hat tip to @daphnek.bsky.social for calling it to my attention.

I love how he has an Excel World Championship belt. 🥹

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This is a great reminder that accuracy is not only relevant when the right to obtain correction of inaccurate data is exercised, but it is a general principle which must be baked into a product that processes personal data from the outset and proactively. OOOOAAAA

#Russmedia is the gift that keeps on giving. First time the Court states this re: accuracy:
"every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay."
CC: AI developers 👀

Hold your horses 🐴 The CJEU itself clarifies that having to comply as an online platform with the #GDPR to prevent unlawful processing of sensitive data *is not* an obligation of general monitoring.
It’s right there in the judgment, spelled out, at para 132.

#Russmedia

Kudos to Pan Collins whose idea this was in the first place 50 years ago @rte.ie @rteone.rte.ie @latelateshow.rte.ie #LateLateToyShow

YouTube video by Joe Tidy Children's names, pictures and addresses stolen in nursery chain hack - BBC News at 10 report

Our News at 10 segment on the nursery hacks here. One of the most shocking parts of this nasty little hack is that the criminals have hired people to call up some of the parents to say 'your kids data is going on the dark web unless you tell Kidos to pay us'.
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The Baden-Württemberg DPA created ONKIDA, a GDPR-compliant AI standard, to help organizations interpret GDPR rules for AI. It provides positions, guidance and recommendations from data protection authorities to support compliance.

The EU’s decision on a potential “stop the clock” for the AI Act is delayed. The AI Board meeting was postponed, following delays to the Apply AI Strategy and the national authorities' setup. Political guidance is now expected at a Telecom WP this month.
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The RTB settlement wait is over: Google real-time bidding privacy settlement will require Google to give users new controls over online tracking/ad targeting.- @wendyndavis. See storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real world havoc, allowing them to turn off lights, open smart shutters, and more.

The apartment lights go out. The smart shutters start to roll up. An internet-connected boiler is remotely turned on.

But the residents didn’t trigger any of these actions. It’s a demonstration of how AI can be hacked to create real-world havoc.

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Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

A happy book says: I'm so proud you chose me as your holiday read! I can't wait to start entertaining you! A smiling drink says: And I'm right here! Ready to keep you cool and refreshed while you read! A gleeful phone adds: Yay! So great! How about we kick things off with a load of the same old rubbish you always look at, plus some gloomy news and mavbe a few emails from work!! Hours later... The drink and book lie untouched. The phone is out of view but a bubble reads: Scroll Scroll Scroll Scroll Scroll The book says “I hate that guy.”

My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books
#holiday #vacation #reading

Greetings from SXSW. Just saw Meredith Whittaker (Signal CEO) gave a great talk on why everyone needs privacy even if you don’t think you do. And how being a nonprofit removes the temptation to “further monetize” information you have on your users

O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers’ time - Virgin Media O2 O2 has today unveiled the newest member of its fraud prevention team, 'Daisy'. As ‘Head of Scammer Relations’, this state-of-the-art AI Granny's mission is to talk with fraudsters and waste as much of...

best use of AI yet? UK mobile operator O2 has created a human-like AI “Granny” to answer calls in real time from fraudsters, wasting as much of their time as possible 😅 news.virginmediao2.co.uk/o2-unveils-d...