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The data breach of the Bureau of Customs systems has been contained and defense of the agency’s database is ongoing, according to the Department of Information and Communications Technology.
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Concern is rising among AT&T customers who may be victims of a data breach.
J.D. Power: 5G Fixed Wireless Has the Highest Customer Satisfaction Fixed wireless access (FWA) based on 5G has the highest customer satisfaction of five technologies studied recently by J.D. Power. It beat out fiber, cable broadband, DSL and fixed wireless based on 4G LTE. Satisfaction scores for 5G FWA ranged Telecompetitor
Grindr is being sued. The LGBTQ+ dating app is accused of sharing its users’ medical data with advertisers. This data includes their HIV status. UK law firm Austen Hays filed the claim at London’s High Court yesterday. The class action lawsuit represents hundreds of users of the app. Austen Hays claims that US-based Grindr breached UK data protection law by selling sensitive data to third parties without users’ consent. Aside from medical facts, this includes info about people’s...
To the editor: Regarding the new state law requiring restaurants to disclose all fees such as service and security charges or incorporate them into their prices, how about informing customers of all charges before they enter a restaurant? ("Perch charges diners 'security' fee at downtown L.A. rooftop spot, sparking outrage," April 9) If a restaurant is going to inform the customer of any charges in addition to that of the meal prices, why wait until the customer is already seated? I think I know...
Heineken is the latest brand getting comfortable with generative AI chatbots. The brewer has integrated a gen AI chatbot into its cloud platform, KIM (Knowledge and Insights Management), letting Heineken's global workforce of 2,000 staffers query structured and unstructured data, including over 8,000 files of consumer information, interviews and reports, for real-time insights. Employees can ask questions such as "How do European millennials feel about non-alcoholic beers?" or "What are...
Particle Health on Monday said the "vast majority" of its customers are still receiving data from Epic Systems
A class action lawsuit filed in Illinois claims retail giant Target collects and stores customers’ biometric data without obtaining proper consent, in violation of state law.
A data scraping service is selling information on what it claims to be 600 million Discord users. A report from 404 Media details Spy Pet, an online service that gathers, stores and sells troves of information from the social platform. But have no fear: It markets its services to totally trustworthy paying clients like law enforcement, AI model trainers or your average person curious about “what their friends are up to.” Why ask them when you can simply purchase and download a copy of their...
Employees were left shocked after Foxtrot closed all branches on Tuesday. A barista on TikTok documented how it unfolded at one café which shuttered. Foxtrot had 33 locations across Chicago, Austin, Dallas and Washington DC