Meta to Train AI on E.U. User Data From May 27 Without Consent; Noyb Threatens Lawsuit

Austrian privacy non-profit noyb (none of your business) has sent Meta’s Irish headquarters a cease-and-desist letter, threatening the company with a class action lawsuit if it proceeds with its plans to train users’ data for training its artificial intelligence (AI) models without an explicit opt-in. The move comes weeks after the social media behemoth announced…

Coinbase Agents Bribed, Data of ~1% Users Leaked; $20M Extortion Attempt Fails

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has disclosed that unknown cyber actors broke into its systems and stole account data for a small subset of its customers. “Criminals targeted our customer support agents overseas,” the company said in a statement. “They used cash offers to convince a small group of insiders to copy data in our customer support…