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EP 289. Deep Dive.. Everything looked fine. The A.I., Privacy and Security Weekly update for the week ending April 27th 2026
Warren Buffett once said it's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked. This week, the tide went out on several fronts simultaneously, and what it revealed was uncomfortable, instructive, and in some cases, long overdue.
France opened the week with a breach that should trouble every government running centralised identity infrastructure. Up to 19 million records tied to passports, ID cards, and driver's licenses are now circulating on criminal forums. What makes this worse than a typical data leak is the context: a similar dataset from the same agency surfaced…
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