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Hackers are claiming to have leaked data stolen from Madison Square Garden, adding to a growing list of high-profile breaches this year. The claim is unverified, but it arrives alongside fresh concerns about facial recognition technology, with San Francisco gay bars reportedly deploying face scanners — raising immediate questions about consent, surveillance, and who exactly is collecting that data.
Shifting to the cloud, a significant data privacy story is emerging around Anthropic's newest Claude models on Amazon Bedrock. Using Claude Fable Five or Mythos Five now requires opting into a data-sharing arrangement that sends your prompts and outputs to Anthropic for thirty-day retention, with human review possible. That's a meaningful departure from how previous Bedrock models worked, keeping inference data strictly within the AWS boundary. Notably, Anthropic pulled access to both models just three days after launch, citing US export control compliance — a rare and telling move.
And finally, France has quietly walked away from Palantir, the American data analytics firm whose government contracts have long drawn scrutiny in Europe. The decision reflects a broader tension between European digital sovereignty and reliance on US technology platforms — a trade-off more governments are being forced to reckon with openly.
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