Big Tech Knows You're Depressed

Big Tech Knows You're Depressed
This week in the Weekly News Roundup, big tech is working on mental health data collection, openssh has a vulnerability, and hard drives with medical data found at a flea market. Also, big tech's global fines are only a few days of work. We also visit SillyVille.

Privacy
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/02/google-now-allows-digital-fingerprinting-of-its-users

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/02/deepseek-found-to-be-sharing-user-data-with-tiktok-parent-company-bytedance

https://www.techradar.com/health-fitness/smartwatches/your-smartwatch-could-help-predict-when-youre-about-to-get-depressed-according-to-research

Security
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/darktrace-threat-report/

https://securityaffairs.com/174384/security/openssh-vulnerabilities-mitm-dos.html

Data Leaks
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/02/12-million-zacks-accounts-leaked-by-cybercriminal

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/02/hard-drives-containing-sensitive-medical-data-found-in-flea-market

AI Overlords
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/17/what-the-us-first-major-ai-copyright-ruling-might-mean-for-ip-law/

https://www.techradar.com/pro/google-meet-will-now-use-gemini-to-suggest-next-steps-after-your-team-meetings

Business
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-defends-its-vast-book-torrenting-were-just-a-leech-no-proof-of-seeding/

https://notthebee.com/article/people-who-bought-this-expensive-ai-pin-are-going-to-have-their-devices-bricked-after-the-company-was-sold/

https://proton.me/blog/big-tech-pays-fines-under-3-weeks