privacy
On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the hiring of 10 artificial intelligence experts as the first members of its new "AI Corps," which will eventually become a 50-member advisory group. The new hires "will help DHS responsibly leverage new technology and mitigate risks across the homeland security enterprise," a press release explained. AI shows promise for "strategic mission areas," DHS says, such as "countering fentanyl trafficking, combatting online child sexual exploitation and abuse, delivering immigration services, fortifying critical infrastructure, and enhan...
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Cellebrite is a dream come true for police surveillance. Plug in any cellphone, even a locked one, and get a full report of every file on its hard drive. Cellebrite, along with its main competitor, Grayshift, is one of the few companies offering this service. No wonder the Baltimore Police Department, like 6,900 other law enforcement agencies, bought a subscription. Where police saw a dream, however, courts saw a constitutional nightmare. In September 2022, the 5th Appellate Judicial Circuit in Maryland ruled that police must stop using "general and overbroad warrants" to scrape the entire con...
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El Banco Central Europeo (BCE) ha sentado las bases de la que podría ser la moneda del futuro en la región: el euro digital. Desde el pasado mes de noviembre la máxima autoridad monetaria europea aspira a desarrollar un modelo de gemelo digital de los billetes y monedas en curso dando respuesta al auge de los pagos digitales. El objetivo, según han detallado desde Bruselas, no es otro que garantizar que el sistema monetario siga siendo seguro al crear una moneda pública independiente de los bancos privados en un contexto en el que el efectivo ha perdido fuerza. Así, según se desprende del info...
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Ambassadors meeting in Brussels today (20 June) could agree wording of a regulation to protect children online which would compel encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp and Messenger to include surveillance technology that would scan all users' images. The technology - known as 'upload monitoring' - is part of a compromise aiming to break a deadlock in protracted negotiations over the Child Sexual Abuse (CSAM) regulation. Negotiations over the draft regulation, originally proposed in 2022, has been dogged by divisions between countries and the European Parliament over how much the solut...
Euronews (English)
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit concerning the software X (formerly Twitter) uses to find illegal porn images. The suit was brought by Mark Martell, who objected to X using Microsoft's PhotoDNA software. Martell argued that PhotoDNA—which is used across the tech industry to detect and report child porn—required the collection of biometric data and that this collection violated Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). A win for Martell could have imperiled the use of PhotoDNA and similar software by all sorts of tech companies, thwarting tools that have proved useful in fighting ...
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US regulators said on Tuesday that they “uncovered reason to believe” TikTok and its parent company ByteDance are “violating or are about to violate” a US child privacy law. The law requires kid-oriented websites to get parental permission before collecting information about those under the age of 13. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) referred the complaint to the US justice department. The agency also cited potential violations of the FTC Act, the law that outlines its enforcement responsibilities. A spokesperson for the Justice Department declined to comment on the substance of the refer...
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Hundreds of thousands of European schoolchildren are likely being tracked by Microsoft education software widely deployed in schools across continent, according to a group which lodged a formal complaint on the issue before an Austrian regulator today (4 June). NOYB has asked the watchdog to investigate what data is processed by Microsoft 365 Education – a product used widely in classrooms – as it claims that neither the company’s privacy documentation, requests for access, nor NOYB’s own research could fully clarify this, which violates transparency provisions of the General Data Protection R...
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Instead of dispatching an officer each time, several Colorado police departments may soon dispatch a drone to respond to certain 911 calls. While the proposal has promise, it also raises uncomfortable questions about privacy. As Shelly Bradbury reported this week in The Denver Post, "A handful of local law enforcement agencies are considering using drones as first responders—that is, sending them in response to 911 calls—as police departments across Colorado continue to widely embrace the use of the remote-controlled flying machines." Bradbury quotes Arapahoe County Sheriff Jeremiah Gates sayi...
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From Clue and Flo to Premom and Stardust, there are many popular applications women use to monitor their health by tracking information such as their periods, ovulation cycles, and sexual activity. But are female health apps protecting this sensitive data? A team of researchers in the UK found “problematic practices, including inconsistencies” regarding data privacy in several female health apps. They presented the research at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Honolulu, Hawaii in the US this month. The researchers analysed 20 popular female health apps available on the US...
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The end of cash has been heralded for years—mostly by government officials eager to end the expense of minting coins and printing banknotes while pushing transactions to digital forms that can be tracked and taxed. The transformation has met varying degrees of acceptance or resistance from people around the globe. But Australians appear to be eagerly advancing down the road towards a cash-free world. Disappearing Banknotes and Coins"Cash was once a staple in the economy, but it's fast becoming a relic of the past," according to an April report on Australia's financial evolution from SBSNews. "...
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