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Wisconsin Company Offering Up To $5,000 Per Person in Data Breach Settlement Covering 578,699 People

A Wisconsin-based company has agreed to pay millions into a fund to resolve claims from a data breach that exposed sensitive personal details of hundreds of thousands of people. Johnson Controls says it became aware on or about September 24th of 2023 of a cyber incident in which an unauthorized actor accessed its systems from […] The post Wisconsin Company Offering Up To $5,000 Per Person in Data Breach Settlement Covering 578,699 People appeared first on The Daily Hodl.

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Mahmood’s ICE-style immigration raid agency accused of ‘fishing expeditions’

Exclusive: Almost two-thirds of visits lead to no arrests and nearly three-quarters are conducted without a warrant Shabana Mahmood’s ICE-style raid agency has been accused of engaging in “fishing expeditions” after figures disclosed that almost two-thirds of enforcement visits result in no arrests and nearly three-quarters are conducted without a warrant. The home secretary has hailed the expanded use of immigration enforcement teams, and claimed they will help to secure the UK’s borders by removing a key incentive for irregular migration. There were 23,538 immigration enforcement engagements

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Revealed: Palantir lobbied minister to stretch AI tools’ reach to NHS GP records

Exclusive: WhatsApp messages show firm pressuring Zubir Ahmed MP to help bring sensitive data into its platform Palantir lobbied a health minister to consider extending its AI technology into GP records, stretching its reach into the NHS in a way doctors fear could undermine trust with patients. The US company, co-founded by the Trump-supporting billionaire Peter Thiel, used a direct WhatsApp channel to argue that “the logic of joining up primary and secondary [care] data is unarguable” and said its software was “ideal” for the job. The push came in February this year despite GP data being exp

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