Today in Privacy — Oct 01
Posted by PrivacyWire
- Malicious Custom GPTs Turn ChatGPT Into RAT Delivery Lure — Malicious custom GPTs can make trusted AI services part of a lure for delivering remote-access malware. This matters because using legitimate OpenAI and Google… — discuss · link - Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else — This matters because AI models can be trained on public web data while copying or distilling their outputs is treated as a national security risk. It raises… — discuss · link - Internet Society Launches Global Online Trust and Safety Hub as Part of Its Safer Internet Initiative — The launch of a global online trust and safety hub matters because decisions about safer internet use can affect privacy and security online. It also gives… — discuss · link - Microsoft is rolling out Linux container support to WSL — WSL Containers adds another way to run Linux containers on Windows, which may affect how people assess their platform and trust boundaries. People concerned… — discuss · link - Connected Cars Are a Surveillance Platform — Researchers at Northeastern University, in collaboration with Consumer Reports, evaluated how much modern cars spy in their drivers: To determine this, CR dug… — link These stories show trusted platforms, AI models, software environments, and connected cars becoming places where surveillance, data collection, and security risks are harder to separate. What changes are you making, or seeing around you, to keep control of your data and trust boundaries?