Sentra Raises $150 Million for Agentic Data Security
Sentra raised $150 million in Series C to expand AI data security and agentic capabilities after raising over $260 million total.
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NIS2 Directive Makes Board Members Personally Liable for Access Control Decisions
Management bodies must approve and oversee cybersecurity risk-management measures under the EU NIS2 directive and can face liability.
ICO reprimands Staffordshire Police for leaking domestic abuse victim's address
A March 2024 Domestic Violence Protection Notice erroneously included the victim's home address; the ICO chose a reprimand over a fine after the force made improvements.
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Buyer’s guide compares 12 tokenization products for 2026
The roundup sorts vaulted, vaultless, proxy, and SDK products by PCI scope reduction, privacy vaults, and analytics use.
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Op-ed says encryption fails once sensitive data is in use
An FDD lab assessment found unauthorized restoration of vaultless pseudonyms failed and was logged.
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Roundup ranks 10 enterprise DRM and IRM products
Editorial scores, not lab tests, put Microsoft Purview first and cite external-recipient friction as the main adoption risk.
WhatsApp chatbot was told not to recommend privacy regulators
Redact found the hidden text on October 8 across 80 help pages, including account-deletion guidance.
Biomemory Launches DNA Shield, First Commercial Product Built on Its Molecular IT Platform
Biomemory launched DNA Shield, an offline DNA-storage service for long-term protection of critical data.
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Top 10 Best Tokenization Solutions in 2026 [Ranked & Scored]
A 2026 ranking puts Protegrity, Very Good Security, and Thales atop tokenization platforms.
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ICO Reprimands Met Over Third-Party Data Leak
UK ICO reprimands the Metropolitan Police after personal data on 179 people reached unapproved Auror.
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Top 10 Best DLP Software in 2026 [Ranked & Scored]
A 2026 ranking puts Microsoft Purview first among DLP products, ahead of Netskope and Zscaler.
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Metropolitan Police's unchecked use of shoplifting platform lands force in trouble with data watchdog
ICO reprimanded London's Met Police for uploading 179 people's details to Auror without required checks.
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Major AI Firms Pledge Data Protection Changes Following UK Privacy Watchdog Push
Ten major AI firms pledged UK data-protection changes after the ICO pushed transparency and opened a Grok probe.
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UK privacy watchdog starts over with new board and Manchester HQ
Britain’s data regulator is now a board-led Information Commission and has moved its headquarters to Manchester.
Google’s location data privacy failures draw a €403 million fine
Ireland's DPC fined Google €403 million for location-data privacy violations and ordered compliance within six months.
Automated Extraction of Records of Processing Activities (RoPA) Using Hybrid RAG and Locally Deployed Large Language Models
Researchers built RoPA Manager to extract Vietnam data-protection records using hybrid RAG and local LLMs.
Sweden fines Miljödata $183,000 over breach affecting 2.2 million
Sweden's IMY fined IT provider Miljödata $183,000 under GDPR for security failures behind an August 2025 breach affecting 2.2 million people.
Decoding the Legalese: A Scalable and Quantitative Framework for Analyzing Corporate Privacy Policies
An LLM pipeline structures 10,000 privacy policies and scores transparency, protection, and business data use.
Google Fined €403 Million for GDPR Violations Over Location Data Processing
Google Ireland Limited was fined €403 million for violating GDPR by processing user location data, with a six-month compliance remediation required.
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Spain reports first data breach involving autonomous AI agent
Spain's data protection authority AEPD reported its first data breach caused by an autonomous AI agent that altered personal records and accessed invoice data.
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Spain gets its first taste of AI-aided cyber attack
Spain's AEPD reports the country's first data breach executed by an autonomous AI agent that scanned files and exploited vulnerabilities to access personal data.
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Cohesity adds recovery capabilities for AI agents and the data they manage
Cohesity launched Agent Resilience to discover, protect, and recover AI agent memory, configuration, and agent-managed data, debuting with Amazon Bedrock integration.
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Grindr Settles UK Data Privacy Claims for £26m
Grindr will pay £26m ($35.2m) to settle UK group claims alleging unlawful sharing of sensitive data, including HIV status, before 2020, without admitting liability.
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Synology ActiveProtect Manager 2.0 improves AI-driven security
Synology released ActiveProtect Manager 2.0, expanding backup coverage to EC2, Azure, Proxmox and Google Workspace, with AI anomaly detection and malware scanning coming in 2.1.
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