AI has brought us to a familiar inflection point in the story of privacy, cybersecurity, and online safety. We have an opportunity to apply decades of cybersecurity experience before the next generation of technology creates consequences we cannot easily reverse. I learned the importance of that responsibility through a three-year-old child I’ll call Adia. Her name is a protective pseudonym. Adia appeared in an image…
Flock joined the CVE Program as a CNA, giving the company authority to assign IDs to vulnerabilities in its own surveillance cameras and license plate readers. The post Flock can now issue CVEs for its own products. Should we trust it? appeared first on CyberScoop.
Norway’s data protection regulator has fined Microsoft-owned advertising company Xandr NOK 92 million, approximately €8.6 million, for unlawfully processing and sharing Grindr users’ personal data, including information revealing their sexual orientation. The penalty is the largest issued by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority to date and concerns violations between July 2018 and April 2020, before … The post Mic…
The personal AI agents rollout is going about as smoothly as expected: Amazon now blocks Meta's Muse because it doesn't identify itself as a bot while browsing; Instinct keeps raising privacy concerns; and the horror stories from pretty much every personal AI agent keep piling up. Regardless, the tech world is mesmerized by the capabilities and potential of these services. Less than a year
Investigators also sought permission to use an invasive surveillance tool called a cell-site simulators against journalist Georgia Fort and a Minnesota state Senate candidate.
In the past two years, the federal government has unlawfully consolidated data exposing our private information. This consolidation has been chaotic but generally came in three rolling waves: It started with DOGE, moved to agency-to-agency data sharing with ICE, and then attempted data-driven purges of state voter rolls. We all deserve to live in a world where the data we use to pay our taxes, receive benefits, and v…
