FOI documents: Australian Communications Minister Michelle Rowland gave a personal guarantee to YouTube that it would be exempt from a teen social media ban
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Statewatch and FOI documents: the UK government is developing a “murder prediction” tool that uses personal data of those known to police to find likely killers
Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’
FOI documents: data center water consumption in Virginia, home to the world's largest cluster of data centers, hit 1.85B+ gallons in 2023, up from 1.13B in 2019
Usage has increased by almost two-thirds since 2019 in the world's largest concentration of computing infrastructure
FOI documents: eight UK train stations scanned passenger faces for two years as part of AI trials; Amazon software was used to predict age, gender, and emotions
CCTV cameras and AI are being combined to monitor crowds, detect bike thefts, and spot trespassers.
The FTC proposes barring Meta from monetizing kids' data, accusing the company of violating a 2020 order with its privacy program and COPPA with Messenger Kids
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FOI request reveals US Treasury acquired data feeds enabling government use of sensitive data from smartphone apps not subject to due process restrictions
The Treasury Department has in recent months expanded its digital surveillance powers, contracts provided to The Intercept reveal … Tweets: @samfbiddle , @carnage4life , and @_jack_poulson Tweets: Sam...
FOI docs: UK's antitrust regulator suffered 150 data breaches in the last two years, including 40 lost or stolen devices, as hackers seek sensitive company docs
- CMA handles sensitive information on takeovers, competition — Declines to say if breaches affected any merger situations
Sources: after the election, Zuckerberg agreed to temporarily tweak Facebook's algorithm to make authoritative news like CNN and NYT appear more prominently
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