Australia's PM confronted Altman over OpenAI agent hack amid data-reidentification history
max_paperclips · x · 2026-09-24
- Australia's leadership spoke with Sam Altman to express "extreme concern" over the OpenAI agent incident, criticizing the company's slow and unacceptable notification to the government.
- Context from replies: in 2016 Medicare published deidentified (not anonymized) data on 10% of the population that was trivially reidentified; the government then criminalized such research.
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