The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update and the Hole in the Bucket for the Week Ending April 2nd., 2024

Episode 185  This week’s update starts out leaking like an old bucket, but gets patched up pretty good. We start with our friends at AT&T and yet more mobile phone subscriber detail launched out onto the dark web. Is it playing catch up with another mobile service provider?An almost shocking update from the Department of Homeland Security that they are halting the purchase of your location data and phone records from data brokers. Could this be the DHS realizing they were doing wrong or is it simply down to budget cuts?Then there’s news from President Joe that all agencies should appoint a chief AI officer. In the acronym laden US government that would mean adding a CAIO to the C-suite. Not to be outdone, the VP announced some new AI standards introducing the novel new word “fairness” to some of the use cases that are popping up like spring flowers across the US.The US taxpayers on are the hook in a new reward for the capture of the BlackCat hackers, before we move on to Google pledging to destroy the truckloads of data it collected on you (and others) while you used their browser in incognito mode.We finish the update with that look in your eye that has given yet another country the impetus to pause retina scanning by a man called Sam.If there’s a hole in the bucket, we’d better get to fixing it. Grab some straw and let’s go! Find the full transcript to this week's podcast here.