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Nearly seven million drivers are waking up to some unwelcome news today. Insurance company AssuranceAmerica has confirmed a major data breach exposing the personal and insurance records of just under seven million customers. Attackers stole login credentials and sensitive driver data, and while nothing has surfaced on the dark web yet, the company is warning victims to watch for phishing attempts using their own information against them.
Shifting gears to a privacy concern that's already affecting you right now — Meta has quietly opted every public Instagram account into its Muse Image AI training program. That means your photos may already be feeding the company's artificial intelligence models. The fix requires a manual opt-out, and Engadget has the step-by-step on how to do it before more of your images disappear into the machine.
And in a lighter turn, Anthropic is borrowing a page from Spotify's playbook. The company behind the Claude AI assistant has launched a reflect feature, giving users a personalized breakdown of how they've been using the chatbot over the past month, quarter, or full year. It's part data mirror, part digital diary — and a sign that AI companies are increasingly thinking about the relationship, not just the transaction.
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