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Microsoft defends intrusive dialog in Visual Studio Code that asks if you really trust the code you’ve been working on

‘All the subtlety of a GDPR cookie banner and the charm of Clippy’ Visual Studio Code program manager Chris Dias has defended an intrusive new “Workspace Trust” dialog, saying it is to “raise awareness that there are many attack opportunities when you download code from the internet.”…

‘All the subtlety of a GDPR cookie banner and the charm of Clippy’ Visual Studio Code program manager Chris Dias has defended an intrusive new “Workspace Trust” dialog, saying it is to “raise awareness that there are many attack opportunities when you download code from the internet.”…
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Keep less, know more: the AI advantage hiding in your data estate

The Security Think Tank explores the intersection of GDPR and artificial intelligence, considering how data protection standards in the UK and Europe are changing in this new paradigm…

The Security Think Tank explores the intersection of GDPR and artificial intelligence, considering how data protection standards in the UK and Europe are changing in this new paradigm…
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Vesta raises $30M for AI agents that work on mortgage decisions

Vesta has raised a $30M Series B to expand AI agents that handle mortgage origination work, including underwriting decisions, with three customer lenders among the investors. The same software sold in Europe would be high-risk under the AI Act, and GDPR already limits automated decisions of this kind…

Vesta has raised a $30M Series B to expand AI agents that handle mortgage origination work, including underwriting decisions, with three customer lenders among the investors. The same software sold in Europe would be high-risk under the AI Act, and GDPR already limits automated decisions of this kind…
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Seven years after asking, gardaí cannot access driving licence photos

Ability to confirm drivers’ identity with photographs omitted from legislation due to ‘complex’ GDPR rules…

Ability to confirm drivers’ identity with photographs omitted from legislation due to ‘complex’ GDPR rules…
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Google fined €403 million over location data privacy violations

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Google €403 million ($463M) for multiple GDPR violations related to processing users’ location data. …

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Google €403 million ($463M) for multiple GDPR violations related to processing users’ location data. …
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