data privacy

The past seven days offered a compact lesson in how fragile modern digital trust has become: a newsroom prank turned into a machine‑level “fact,” subpoenas (or at least discussions about them) revealed how much non‑content data sits within major platforms, criminals weaponized upgrade panic into...

Microsoft has quietly added a default‑on setting to Copilot that explicitly permits the assistant to “use data from Bing, MSN, Edge, and other Microsoft products you’ve used,” and you should seriously consider turning it off right now if you care about privacy, discoverability, or simply keeping...

User reports and public monitoring on February 25, 2026 show scattered, intermittent failures and access errors affecting Microsoft Copilot for some users — but the evidence available at issuance does not support a single, global outage that took the entire Copilot platform offline. ustme.com]...

Microsoft’s terse denial — that it “does not believe” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using its technology for mass civilian surveillance — has landed at the center of a fresh debate about cloud scale, algorithmic capabilities, and corporate responsibility after reporting that...

Microsoft’s cloud and AI engines — the same infrastructure the company says it polices through terms of service — are now the focus of a renewed debate over corporate responsibility after leaked documents showed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) dramatically expanded its Azure...

Microsoft’s flagship productivity assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot, briefly looked inside emails organizations had explicitly marked “Confidential,” summarised them in the Copilot “Work” chat experience, and — in doing so — highlighted a stubborn truth: embedding cloud AI into everyday...

Microsoft’s flagship productivity AI for Microsoft 365 has a glaring privacy problem: for weeks a code error allowed Copilot Chat to read and summarize emails that organizations had explicitly labelled as confidential, bypassing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) controls and undermining a core tenant...

The fourth quarter of 2025 produced a clear inflection point for cloud computing: after years of steady growth, the industry reaccelerated as enterprises moved from experimentation to large-scale production of generative AI workloads. All three hyperscalers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft...

The European Parliament has quietly moved to disable the built‑in artificial‑intelligence features on the work devices it issues to Members of the European Parliament and their staff — a precautionary step driven by unresolved cybersecurity and data‑protection risks tied to cloud‑connected...

Washington, D.C. has taken a decisive step to institutionalize AI governance inside city government by mandating responsible AI training for every District employee and contractor, a move announced on February 12, 2026 that formalizes workforce readiness as a central plank of municipal AI...

Capita’s deployment of Microsoft Copilot to triage and summarise incoming Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) cases is the most visible sign yet of how generative AI is being rushed into mission‑critical public services — and it arrives against the backdrop of a catastrophic handover that left...

Dublin’s councillors are quietly confronting a familiar public‑sector dilemma: the workload is rising, budgets and staff headcount are not, and a new generation of generative AI tools — led in this case by Microsoft Copilot — is being floated as a practical shortcut to keep services running and...

The leaked files published this week show that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement dramatically increased its use of Microsoft’s Azure cloud during the second half of 2025 — more than tripling stored volumes on Azure in six months and expanding the agency’s consumption of Microsoft...

The European Parliament has quietly moved to disable built‑in artificial‑intelligence features on the work devices it issues to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), citing cybersecurity and data‑protection risks tied to cloud‑connected assistants and summarizers — a move that crystallizes...

Glean’s move from “Google for enterprise” to the invisible intelligence layer under every workplace AI is not a product tweak — it’s a strategic bet that could rewrite how companies adopt, govern, and scale generative AI across the business. Background: how we got here and why the layer matters...

OpenAI’s announcement that it will begin testing advertisements inside ChatGPT marks a clear turning point for conversational AI: the free and lower‑cost “Go” tiers will start seeing clearly labeled, separated ads beneath answers for logged‑in adults in the U.S., while higher‑paid plans remain...

OneDrive’s Folder Backup (Known Folder Move) is quietly one of the most consequential “default” behaviors in Windows 11: when it’s activated without clear consent it can commingle local and cloud copies, consume paid OneDrive storage, and change where your files actually live — often without you...

Puerto Rico’s public school system has quietly started a transformation that other education systems will watch closely: the Department of Education is rolling Microsoft 365 Copilot into teacher workflows, device management, and learning activities with an explicit focus on accessibility...

The City of Cold Lake’s council unanimously approved a new Artificial Intelligence policy on Jan. 27 that deliberately steers between outright prohibition and laissez‑faire adoption: it gives municipal staff a principles‑based decision framework to use embedded AI features while erecting...

The City of Cold Lake has moved from deliberation to action: on Jan. 27 council unanimously approved a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) policy that aims to let municipal staff use AI where it delivers efficiency, while erecting clear guardrails to protect personal and organizational information...