DOJ raises privacy concerns over potential sale of Character.AI chats
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What happened
Security news digest covering privacy and data-governance concerns related to a potential Character.AI sale, a retail payment-card breach, exposure of Social Security numbers affecting approximately 4.9 million Florida financial-aid applicants, sentencing of a Syrian Electronic Army hacker, and British oversight concerns regarding unaccounted-for GCHQ data-storage devices.
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