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- Data breaches hit three-year high: OAIC
https://www.innovationaus.com/data-breaches-hit-three-year-high-oaic/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter% - Gov reported 44 cyber breaches in first six months of 2024
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/gov-reported-44-cyber-breaches-in-first-six-months-of-2024-611646?eid=1&edate=20240917&utm_source=20240917_AM&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter - Instagram to make all teenagers’ accounts private by default
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/g-s1-23181/instagram-teen-accounts-private-meta-child-safety - China wants “red flags” on all AI-generated content posted
https://www.dataguidance.com/news/china-cac-solicits-comments-draft-measures-identifying - BT identifying 2,000 signals a second indicating possible cyber-attacks
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/12/hackers-weaponising-ai-for-cybercrime-bt-warns - 23andMe to pay $30 million in genetics data breach settlement
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/23andme-to-pay-30-million-in-genetics-data-breach-settlement/ - Meta, TikTok, and Snap pledge to participate in program to combat suicide and self-harm content
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/12/meta-tiktok-and-snap-pledge-to-participate-in-program-to-combat-suicide-and-self-harm-content/?ref=everythinginmoderation.co - Social-Media Companies’ Worst Argument
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/social-media-lgbtq-teens-harms/679798/ - What we know about the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria
https://abcnews.go.com/International/pagers-exploded-lebanon-syria/story?id=113800213 - Cops across the world arrest 51 in orchestrated takedown of Ghost crime platform
https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/18/51_arrests_ghost_platform/