The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature...

The not entirely serious weekly (actually one-off) newsletter charting the wild rampage of Frontier AI through the world of cyber security

The incident shows how quickly police departments have come to use AI surveillance tools even in critically sensitive cases.

Yes, you can watch the camera feed from an app.

How an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.

ChatGPT Computer History tracks your Mac activity to build a searchable timeline, no screenshots involved.

The technology is under fire for how police officers have abused it. But it’s only the symptom of a larger problem.

The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security

Artists and venues take the pledge: no facial recognition at shows.

Experts take company to task for safety efforts

Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Me...

State department grants of up to $3mn are designed to boost groups pushing Maga-style policies

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The president of the encrypted messaging app says autonomous AI agents, device scanning and digital advertising are converging into a new architecture of surveillance.

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”

The president of the encrypted messaging app says autonomous AI agents, device scanning and digital advertising are converging into a new architecture of surveillance.

This submission analyzes Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, which would enact broad surveillance obligations and reforms in Canada. Issues include: the bill’s sweeping scope, significant constitutional...

🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in...

The U.S. top court is expected to rule on whether to allow police to identify criminal suspects by dragnet searching the databases of tech giants.

Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.

Is AI a threat to privacy? Prof G Conversations with Meredith Whittaker.

In a 1985 profile in People Magazine, the late Rick James called Teena Marie “the most important White female singer since Barbara…

Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications.

Was die KI über Sie weiß, kann gegen Sie verwendet werden, warnt die prominente KI-Expertin Meredith Whittaker. Und fordert: Stoppt die leichtsinnigen Anwendungen!

La présidente de la messagerie Signal s’oppose frontalement aux géants de la Tech de la Silicon Valley et à l’appétit des États pour nos données. Rencontre.

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