Collaborate Disseminate
The bill was introduced by Phil Ting: one of 26 state lawmakers misidentified as suspects in an ACLU test of the technology. Continue reading California outlaws facial recognition in police bodycams
Most people nowadays are quite aware that hiring managers put their social media postings under a microscope, a new survey finds. Continue reading Job seekers are scrubbing clean their social media accounts
Deepfake tech has push-button apps and service portals. Can code commodification do the same for detection, so women can actually afford it? Continue reading Deepfakes have doubled, overwhelmingly targeting women
TOMS seems like a really nice shoe company, and it just got hacked in a really nice way. But it’s still a hack. Continue reading TOMS hacker tells people to log off and enjoy a screenless day
Girlfriend found it, girlfriend popped it onto a city bus, gadget got found, multiyear investigation got launched, 20 got indicted. Continue reading GPS tracker from stalked woman’s car led to indictment of 20 mobsters
It’s coming next month, in spite of a lawsuit and the data regulator’s protests about lack of consent, data security and privacy. Continue reading Nationwide facial recognition ID program underway in France
The EU’s top court ruled that platforms like Facebook can be ordered to proactively seek out and delete all copies of illegal content. Continue reading Social media platforms can be forced to delete illegal content worldwide
Police could set up transceivers outside a building and compare spectrograms of suspects walking vs. crime scene footage. Continue reading Wi-Fi signals let researchers ID people through walls from their gait
“You misguidedly tried to help your son” by moving his cryptocurrency, but it “didn’t help him at all,” a judge said. Continue reading Hacker’s parents sentenced for selling his cryptocurrency
It’s good, but also a perfect opportunity for us to remember that Incognito mode doesn’t translate to “I’m invisible!” Continue reading Google brings Incognito mode to Maps