Tag: Privacy Issues/Information Security

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Opinion: Ford’s pact with Chinese EV battery maker is a sucker punch to American taxpayers

02/28/2023
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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin made national headlines recently when he rejected a Ford Motor F, +1.30% factory in a struggling part of the state, owning to Ford’s partnership with Contemporary Ampe...

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Samsung says personal data of some U.S. customers exposed in breach

09/06/2022
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Samsung Electronics Co. is warning some U.S. customers that their personal data was exposed in a recent breach. Samsung announced the breach in a brief statement late Friday, as Americans were about t...

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Apple decimated Meta’s adtech empire. Now, it’s honing in on its advertisers

09/02/2022
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In terms of Silicon Valley feuds, you’d be hard pressed to find one that’s spicier than the years-long battle between Meta and Apple. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg started steering his company to...

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Google Parts With Engineer Who Claimed Its AI System Is Sentient

07/24/2022
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Google fired an engineer who contended that an artificial-intelligence chatbot the company developed had become sentient, telling him that he had violated the company’s data security policies after it...

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China Fines Ride-Hailing Giant Didi $1.2 Billion, Citing Cybersecurity Breaches

07/21/2022
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SINGAPORE—Chinese authorities fined ride-hailing company Didi Global the equivalent of about $1.2 billion, bringing an end to a yearlong investigation into the company’s cybersecurity practices. The f...

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Facebook Is Broken. Execs Say a Fix Won’t Come Fast.

04/23/2022
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Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has come under heavy fire from Congress, regulators, and even its own users, but there has been nothing like the crisis it now faces. Its core business is decelera...

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Semiconductor sales to Russia banned, but that shouldn’t hurt Intel, AMD and other chip makers

02/28/2022
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Semiconductor companies are banning sales to Russia following the company’s invasion of Ukraine, but an analyst says the companies shouldn’t feel much of an effect. As Russian forces continued to bomb...

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Zscaler stock drops after forecast outlook range dips below Street view

02/24/2022
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Zscaler Inc. shares dropped in the extended session Thursday after the cybersecurity company forecast an earnings range that dipped below Wall Street expectations following a rally in the regular sess...

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Forget Apple and Google. Meta Has Another Existential Threat on the Horizon.

02/18/2022
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Text size Investors in Meta have been taken on a wild ride this month. There are more threats ahead. Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms ‘ shareholders have had a lot to worry about recen...