The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update "Explodes" for the Week Ending June 3rd., 2025

EP 245 In this week's update:  A trove of sensitive Russian nuclear facility documents was unintentionally published through a government procurement site, revealing critical infrastructure details, raising global security concerns and providing your child's science class with a new talking point.A new study shows that large language models struggle to manage even simple long-term business operations, often collapsing into erratic or irrational behavior.A new benchmark evaluates how aggressively AI models report unethical behavior, highlighting the growing complexity of aligning AI with human moral expectations.Brazil launches a groundbreaking program enabling citizens to securely store and sell their personal data, potentially reshaping global norms on digital ownership and privacy.Data broker LexisNexis disclosed a breach impacting over 364,000 individuals, spotlighting persistent vulnerabilities in third-party development environments.A wave of cyberattacks has disrupted operations at some high-profile (and not so high profile) fashion retailers, targeting the retail sector's ongoing style and cybersecurity challenges.Hackers claim to have scraped 1.2 billion Facebook profiles via an API exploit, and that's almost as much as Meta scraped off its own apps.An AI-driven tool that aggregates and analyzes YouTube comments to infer personal details sparks serious concerns over online anonymity and platform safeguards.The U.S. government has quietly added DNA from over 130,000 migrant children to a criminal database, prompting widespread ethical and privacy criticisms.What do you say?  Time to explode onto this scene.Find the full transcript for this podcast here.