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GRIP Extra 3/24
This week FTX customers get some of their money back, Marriott must improve security after data breaches, TikTok is sued and Roblox targeted by short-sellers, while Chinese start-ups are playing catch-up on AI.
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Norway aims to become the world’s most digitized country
A new strategy from the government sets out clear goals for the “digital Norway of the future.”
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GRIP Extra 2/24
This week strikes end on the US East Coast; EU tariffs on Chinese EVs; SEC charges in pre-IPO scheme; another sentence connected to Brazil’s Odebrecht and a Singapore graft investigation resulting in charges against tycoon.
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Irish DPC fines Meta €91m for password storage failures
Meta Ireland stored social media users passwords in ‘plaintext’ without encryption.
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GRIP Extra 1/24
This week an apology from CrowdStrike; a key departure from OpenAI and some economic news from China and Saudi Arabia that may have a global impact.
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IMY and Swedish banks in GDPR project to reduce money laundering
The Swedish Data Protection Authority and four banks will investigate better information sharing to fight financial crime.
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FCC reaches $13m settlement with AT&T for vendor data breach
Threat actors obtained customer data by breaching the cloud environment of a former vendor.
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Electricity and gas firm fined €5m for unsolicited contacts and using old data
More than 2,300 customers were contacted, with some ‘relationships on paper’ endorsed with false signatures.