DOJ raises privacy concerns over potential sale of Character.AI chats
2026-10-31T14:51:49Z•1ebb9b368bb403de0d1ce88cfd5c1e1d0cab3808c992934cc1d0f3dbcca5b0f3
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News digest covering privacy and data-governance concerns over a potential sale of Character.AI chat data; a fashion retailer breach exposing payment card numbers; a Florida student financial-aid website breach affecting approximately 4.9 million people and exposing Social Security numbers; sentencing of a Syrian Electronic Army hacker for attacks on Western targets; and UK watchdog criticism that GCHQ cannot account for thousands of data-storage devices. These reports describe significant privacy, personal-data, payment-card, and government information-security issues, but provide no specific
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