Researcher ‘reverses’ redaction, extracts words from pixelated image
A researcher has demonstrated how he was able to successfully recover text that had been redacted using the pixelation technique.
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Apple’s App Privacy Report launches into beta to show you what your apps are up to
The new App Privacy Report works to collect information about how apps are behaving more directly.
Privacy Management for Microsoft 365 Now Generally Available
The tool is designed to automatically discover personal data in organizations’ Microsoft 365 environments.
Clearview AI Has New Tools to Identify You in Photos
In an interview with WIRED, CEO Hoan Ton-That said the company has scraped 10 billion photos from the web—and developed new ways to aid police surveillance.
Twitter Plans New Privacy Tools to Get More People Tweeting
Twitter is planning to test new privacy-related features aimed at giving users greater control over their follower lists and who can see their posts and likes.
Malware Masquerades as Privacy Tool
Proofpoint researchers found a new threat enticing users to download malware by masquerading as a “Privacy Tools” service offering a tool that “encrypts” user data using a zip-like utility.
Census releases guidelines for controversial privacy tool
the U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday announced guidelines for how a controversial statistical method will be applied to the numbers used for drawing congressional and legislative districts.
This Tool Can Make Your Pics Undetectable To Facial Recognition
A new tool is promising to make your pictures undetectable to facial recognition software without significantly changing their appearance.
New tool makes it possible to do research on patient records without seeing sensitive information
Researchers have developed a new tool that can collect information from electronic health records without disclosing sensitive patient information.
Facebook open-sources differential privacy tool
Facebook’s Opacus is a library for training PyTorch models with differential privacy that’s ostensibly more scalable than existing state-of-the-art methods. […]