Bias risks: AI can amplify inequalities, like mislabeling non-native English writing as AI-generated. Privacy concerns: Schools face rising cyberattacks, and data misuse risks are high. Accountability: Human oversight is crucial to prevent over-reliance on AI.
Asked by investors about his biggest worries, CEO Rick Smith said: A misstep around privacy and data handling. Without elaborating on specific examples, he said: We are seeing that those are concerns right now out in the public. I think that would be one where we could make a mistake that would have outsized negative consequences.
As the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics enter their final weekend, we would like to hear about the moment will stay with you. Wherever you are, what was your favourite moment and why? Share your favourite You can tell us your highlight from the Winter Olympics 2026 using this form. Your responses, which can be anonymous, are secure as the form is encrypted
The change stems from the 2025 amendment to the Federal Tax Code, which has sparked controversy in the sector following the reform of Article 30-B. This provision stipulates that taxpayers providing digital services must grant tax authorities permanent, real-time online access only to the information necessary to verify compliance with tax obligations, as recorded in their systems or records. When asked about the reform, the Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency referred EL PAIS to the SAT.
AI's next target? Helping you kick your phone addiction. AI devices are a top priority for Big Tech companies that view it as the future of how humans and AI interact, writes BI's Amanda Hoover. You've likely heard of this hardware before, which acts as a sort of AI sidekick for your life. From the Rabbit R1 and Humane to Friend, the names are different, but the stories are the same: big expectations, difficult execution.
Trust has fast become one of the central questions in every serious conversation about AI. Not capabilities. Not efficiency. Trust. If customers don't trust how companies deploy AI, they'll walk away. If employees don't trust it, they'll disengage. If enterprises don't trust their AI providers, they won't adopt. A recent global KPMG study found that while two-thirds of people now use AI regularly, fewer than half say they're willing to trust it.
The European Parliament has taken a rare and telling step: it has disabled built-in artificial intelligence features on work devices used by lawmakers and staff, citing unresolved concerns about data security, privacy, and the opaque nature of cloud-based AI processing. The decision, communicated to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in an internal memo this week, reflects a deepening unease at the heart of European institutions about how AI systems handle sensitive data.
TCL is known for its budget TVs, but in recent years, it has delivered some jaw-dropping models and consistently rolled out excellent hardware that often rivals far more expensive sets. My issue, however, is that most TCL TVs ship with default settings that do not give you the best picture, performance, or privacy protections at home. Luckily, the fix is simple.
You pop open YouTube, and seconds into the video, an ad about your favorite chocolate brand shows up out of the blue. And you feel a bit of a chill since you were just talking about your sudden craving for that exact brand and type of chocolate. Well, it turns out that it can be like that. Information you enter online and through apps can be used to collect data such as your interests, hobbies, and simple search queries.
It is the view of the BMA that doctors working in the NHS can no longer provide the tacit endorsement that using a product implies and must immediately take steps to explore refusing any non-direct care usage of Palantir's Federated Data Platform, with a view to moving away from the platform entirely in time, when a suitable alternative can be put in place.
You've long been able to ask Google to remove certain personal information from its search results, such as your name, home address, phone number, and email address. But now the search giant has expanded the types of details it will delete in response to your request. First up, you'll soon be able to give the heave-ho to any of your government-issued IDs that pop up in a search result. That includes your passport, driver's license, and Social Security number. Right now, this option is just rolling out in the US and should hit other countries down the road.
Grok's placement on the government website realfood.gov follows uproar over the chatbot's creation of millions of sexualized deepfakes of women and children in late December and its spouting of racist and antisemitic content last summer. Other government agencies are also using the chatbot made by xAI, Musk's AI company, but the prominent placement of Grok on realfood.gov over the weekend appears to be one of the first instances of the federal government pointing online visitors to Musk's chatbot.
OpenClaw and Moltbot are the talk of the tech town right now, but cybersecurity researchers have flagged some concerns that you might want to think about. OpenClaw - first known as Clawdbot, then Moltbot, all in the same week - has got the tech world buzzing thanks to its abilities to autonomously perform tasks like managing a user'sschedule. Meanwhile, Moltbook has gone viral for its Reddit-style social network, where AI agents post and interact with one another. No humans allowed - apart from observing.
Over the past three years, several Latin American countries have witnessed the arrival of the Orb, a futuristic-looking spherical device used to read irises and capture biometric data. This striking technology, developed by World Foundation and created by Sam Altman, a leading figure in artificial intelligence and CEO of OpenAI, along with its operational partner, Tools for Humanity, has been installed in shopping malls, gas stations, and other locations in Colombia, Chile, and Brazil.
US TikTok users are navigating a major ownership shift as TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC takes control of American operations, addressing longstanding national security concerns. Amid the transition, glitches, feed changes, and privacy policy scrutiny fuel uncertainty, prompting creators and casual users alike to reevaluate their engagement. Daily uninstall rates have spiked dramatically, while rival platforms gain traction, illustrating how trust, control, and technical reliability shape digital loyalty in real time.
The agency is flush with cash; it now has a larger budget than the FBI. To the point that ICE has, in fact, acquired two mobile data-capture companies, including Penlink, a longtime Department of Homeland Security vendor. The company tracks and maps purchasable or scrapable data from data brokers, pictures or videos posted on social media and geo-fencing, to name a few. Penlink's tech can even delve into or extract info from someone's phone, such as contacts, calendar events, chat messages and more.
Sensible businesses will be scrutinizing outgoings now more than ever. With clients looking to claw back profits eroded by spiralling inflation, marketing investment (not to mention your fees) will be up for debate, whether you like it or not. Frustratingly, validating the success of marketing investments is becoming more difficult. We're facing an attribution crisis, and many marketers are struggling to prove the value of each channel or campaign due to the numerous challenges brought about by increased privacy constraints,
O2-owned Weve has kicked off its Mobile World Congress activity by announcing a tie-up with Axonix that will gives advertisers further insight to its 31 million-strong audience base, and better enable programmatic trading. The deal is geared towards helping advertisers trade display advertising more effectively using Weve's audience data, with agencies, trading desks and brands the ideal target market, according to the outfit.
This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Federal Circuit denies yet another mandamus petition seeking relief from the settled expectations doctrine for discretionary IPR denials at the PTAB; Europe's top IP agencies release a joint report showing that IP-driven industries contribute half of Europe's GDP and account for one out of three jobs in the EU; a report by a coalition of creators organizations warns that generative AI threatens one out of every three jobs in the creative industries; Senator Maria Cantwell urges the Trump Administration to restore federal funding levels for the nation's top science and research agencies; Apple announces record-breaking quarterly revenues on iPhone sales; Kalyan Deshpande moves from his interim role at the PTAB to a permanent Chief Judge position; and the Supreme Court grants a petition for cert asking about the scope of consumer data privacy protections under U.S. law preventing companies offering subscriptions to online content from sharing data on content accessed with third parties.
Ad fraud isn't just a marketing problem anymore - it's a full-scale threat to the trust that powers the digital economy. In 2024 alone, fraud in mobile advertising jumped 21%, while programmatic ad fraud drained nearly $50 billion from the industry. During data privacy week 2026, these numbers serve as a reminder that ad fraud is not only about wasted budgets - it's also about how consumer data moves, gets tracked, and sometimes misused across complex ecosystems.
The suit alleged that since November 12, 2017, Google has been illegally collecting cellular data from phones purchased through carriers, even when apps were closed or location features were disabled. As reported by , the affected users believed Google using their data for marketing and product development meant it was guilty of "conversion." In US law, conversion occurs when one party takes the property of another with "the intent to deprive them of it" or "exert property rights over it."
Akido Labs, a Los Angeles-based health care technology company that runs clinics and street medicine teams in California, plans to start using its AI model on homeless and housing insecure patients in the Bay Area next month. The program generates questions for outreach workers to ask patients and then suggests diagnoses, medical tests and even medication, which a human doctor then signs off on remotely.
