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.
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To Be Tracked or Not? Apple Is Now Giving Us the Choice.
With Apple’s latest mobile software update, we can decide whether apps monitor and share our activities with others. Here’s what to know.
Mexico requiring biometric data for cellphone users is a gift to criminals
. In addition to asking for a copy of an ID, telecoms will now be required to collect people’s fingerprints, faceprints, and home addresses.
U.S. banks deploy AI to monitor customers, workers amid tech backlash
Several U.S. banks have started deploying camera software that can analyze customer preferences, monitor workers and spot people sleeping near ATMs, even as they remain wary about possible backlash over increased surveillance.
French top court justifies telecom data retention
The Council of State rules that the existing threat to national security currently justifies the generalized retention of data.
FBI used facial recognition to identify a Capitol rioter from Instagram posts
Facial recognition is helping the feds track down Capitol suspects
The Postal Service is running a running a ‘covert operations program’ that monitors Americans’ social media posts
The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests.
Russia’s surveillance state still doesn’t match China. But Putin is racing to catch up.
Facial recognition is increasingly used against Kremlin critics. But cameras have been off for suspected state-sanctioned attacks.
Verizon Media Introduces Alternative Online Tracking Identifier
Verizon Media announced the launch of its Next-Gen Solutions suite to make advertisers and publishers independent of cookies or mobile app IDs.
After Cookies, Ad Tech Wants to Use Your Email to Track You Everywhere
Cookies are dying, and the tracking industry is scrambling to replace them. There are several proposals from ad tech providers to preserve “addressable media” after cookies die off.
Your ‘smart home’ is watching – and possibly sharing your data with the police
Smart-home devices like thermostats and fridges may be too smart for comfort – especially in a country with few laws preventing the sale of digital data to third parties.
Pandemic reveals Palantir’s troubling reach in Europe
Covid has given Peter Thiel’s secretive US tech company new opportunities to operate in Europe in ways some campaigners find worrying.