As US federal lawmakers drag out AI regulation, states make a push with a flurry of bills; TechNet: state lawmakers have proposed ~400 AI laws in recent months
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Trend Micro: cybercriminals and nation-state spies are coexisting inside the same compromised name-brand routers, using the devices to disguise their attacks
How and why nation-state hackers and cybercriminals coexist in the same router botnet. — Cybercriminals and spies working …
In some US schools, boys have used AI “nudification” apps to create and share deepfakes of clothed female classmates, leading to varying district responses
After boys at Francesca Mani's high school fabricated and shared explicit images of girls last year, she and her mother …
US and UK law enforcement are bracing for an explosion of AI-generated CSAM, and criticize Meta, the authorities' best partner for flagging CSAM, over E2EE
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Sources: Tesla staff privately shared videos from customers' car cameras from 2019 to 2022 on an internal messaging system, including a child being hit by a car
Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.”
OIG report: US officials working on Login.gov, used by dozens of sites, rejected facial recognition to verify users due to algorithmic bias, breaking NIST rules
Khari Johnson / Wired : Tweets: @tobywalsh Tweets: Toby Walsh / @tobywalsh : Is this really true? WIRED claims federal security guidelines require that a person's identity must be...
An analysis of 11 online pharmacies selling abortion pills: at least nine use third-party trackers such as Google Analytics to collect and share sensitive data
Curious about medical abortion for an unplanned pregnancy, I visited the site two months back to order MTP Kit. Onlineabortionpillrx : Buy Mifeprex Online Tweets: Josh Chin / @josh...
Stardust's privacy policy said it may share “anonymized, encrypted” data to third parties “whether or not legally required”, before being changed after pushback
Analysis of Stardust period tracking app, the top free app on the US App Store on June 25, shows it shares users' phone numbers with analytics company Mixpanel
This Privacy Policy explains how Stardust App LLC. Tweets: @motherboard : Menstrual tracking app Stardust is one of Apple's top three most-downloaded free apps right now. It's also...
In the wake of SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade, tech companies give “no comment” in response to questions about users' data that can be used in prosecutions
Tech companies have created employee reimbursement programs, but they have been silent on whether they'll protect users' data …
With Roe overturned, privacy advocates worry period tracking apps are sharing data, with partners or affiliates, that may become evidence of a crime
Privacy advocates fear that fertility data could fall into the wrong hands. — With a menstrual-tracking app, you can see when your periods and fertile days start and end.
Hundreds of documents detail the software bought by China to sift through its vast troves of surveillance data to “predict” who will become troublemakers
The more than 1.4 billion people living in China are constantly watched. They are recorded by police cameras that are everywhere …
Italy's data watchdog finds a local web publisher's use of Google Analytics violated EU data protection rules due to privacy risks over data transfers to the US
Another strike against use of Google Analytics in Europe: The Italian data protection authority has found a local web publisher's use …
A look at student activity monitoring software GoGuardian, whose usage in US schools exploded during lockdowns as some say it adds to kids' psychological strain
A look at student activity monitoring software GoGuardian, whose usage in US schools exploded during lockdowns as some say it adds to kids' psychological strain
The pandemic caused schools to embrace laptops, tablets, Zoom, and an app called GoGuardian that tracks everything students (and, sometimes, parents) do online. Tweets: @talkpovert...
FTC study on the six largest ISPs finds that some fail to fully inform consumers on how their data is monetized, such as using browsing history to serve up ads
The importance of the internet in the daily lives of consumers cannot be overstated. Lily Hay Newman / Wired : Security News This Week: An International Operation Knocked a Notorio...
Interview with Maryana Iskander, Wikimedia Foundation's next CEO, on the org's transparency, handling misinformation on Wikipedia pages, and more
Two decades ago, Wikipedia arrived on the scene as a quirky online project that aimed to crowdsource and document all of human knowledge and history in real time. Tweets: @djparekh...
Study of 12.7M tweets shows social media amplifies expressions of moral outrage, as users learn that such language gets rewarded with more “likes” and “shares”
Social media platforms like Twitter amplify expressions of moral outrage over time because users learn …
Researchers: encryption algorithm GEA-1, used in GPRS data in 2G networks, was deliberately weakened by its designers; ETSI blames export regulations
A new paper shows that two old encryption algorithms still used in mobile networks can be exploited to spy on phones' internet traffic.
Study: Android and iOS transmit telemetry even when devices are idle or users opt out; Google collects 20x more data from Android than Apple from iOS
Academic research published last week looked at the telemetry traffic sent by modern iOS and Android devices back to Apple and Google servers … Source: School of Computer Science &...