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A serious data breach is raising alarms in the UK, where a government minister has confirmed that medical records belonging to five hundred thousand volunteers from the UK Biobank — the world's largest biomedical dataset — have appeared for sale on Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. The volunteers donated their data in the name of medical research, and the implications of that trust being broken are profound.
Shifting from privacy to parenting, Meta is rolling out a new feature that will show parents a summary of the topics their teenagers have discussed with Meta AI over the previous seven days. It's a calculated move as governments around the world push to restrict social media access for minors, and it raises real questions about where transparency ends and surveillance begins.
And in gaming, Microsoft appears to be rethinking its Game Pass subscription model yet again. Reports suggest Xbox is developing a pick-your-own tier, letting subscribers choose which content they actually pay for rather than accepting a fixed bundle. Coming on the heels of a recent price cut to Game Pass Ultimate, it signals that Microsoft is still searching for the right formula in an increasingly competitive streaming landscape.
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