Independent testing finds a hacker can access cheap smart glasses without a password, allowing them to gain control of the glasses and stored images.

BusPatrol plans to scan the license plates of all vehicles the buses drive past, and then let law enforcement search that data. The plan would essentially turn school buses into roaming surveillance v...

(And, not for nothing, they probably just wrecked Quebec separatism, too.)

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A 70-year-old Dutch man died on the Hondius on April 11. Things would quickly escalate into a public health matter.

A few days ago, 404 Media published a detailed report that made a lot of people uncomfortable: the FBI managed to recover Signal messages from a suspect’s iPhone, even though the app had already been uninstalled. No encryption was broken. No Signal server was compromised. The messages were sitting in the phone’s own notification database, waiting to be found.

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The identity verification company used by ChatGPT and other major services accidentally exposed its government-authorized platform, which is capable of extensive surveillance.

Discord will soon require all its users worldwide to verify their ages by sharing video selfies or providing government IDs, a move that coincides with a push for age verification across social media ...

ChatGPT Health launched recently with Apple Health integration, but a journalist’s experiment with the new technology didn’t go very well.

To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them to strip out confidential and personally identifiable information.

But it’s ‘not intended for diagnosis or treatment.’

And seeing “amazingly favorable” results.

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

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Environment ministers in Alberta and Ontario don't want the federal government to reintroduce the safe drinking water law for First Nations.

The Scattered Spider hacking group has caused chaos among retailers, insurers, and airlines in recent months. Researchers warn that its flexible structure poses challenges for defense.

Two European journalists were among the people recently notified by Apple that they had been targeted with spyware by Paragon, according to a report from the Citizen Lab, with one device showing signs...

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CVEs are used by Microsoft, Apple, Intel, and many others.

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke told employees in a memo that artificial intelligence is making its way across the company, including when it comes to hiring.

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The often-explicit pictures are being stored without password protection, leaving them vulnerable to a hack.

“The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.”

The VR market is shrinking again, led down (and let down) by the Vision Pro...

Birds often incorporate human-made materials while nest building, but a new study shows European corvids are taking the idea to the extreme.

Some Echo devices have a feature that allows you to block voice recordings from being sent to the cloud, but Amazon is killing it.