Privacy-focused DuckDuckGo launches new effort to block online tracking
Browser makers can and will use a carefully created and now freely shared list of companies that track your online activity.
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Police To Use A Network Of 1,000 “Anveshak” AI Cameras To “Spotlight” A Person’s Every Movement
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) researchers have figured out a way to turn a vast network of CCTV cameras into one massive surveillance network, which can target a specific vehicle or person.
Commission reveals details on future EU robotics policy
Robotics technologies in the EU could come under the scope of new rules as part of a series of efforts to ensure the safety of next-generation technologies, it has emerged.
Facebook prompt will encourage ad tracking opt-in ahead of Apple’s privacy push
Facebook is facing a privacy reckoning, thanks to Apple. Facebook will start showing the prompt globally today, prior to Apple’s early spring update.
The Creeping Normalization of Robotic Police Officers
Robotic police officers are a rare novelty right now, but as law enforcement agencies across the world buy them, they’re quickly becoming normalized.
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature will be enabled by default and arrive in ‘early spring’ on iOS
You can now toggle IDFA sharing on a by-app basis at any time, where previously it was a single toggle. If you turn off the “Allow apps to request to track” setting altogether no apps can even ask you to use tracking.
Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos
An online tool targets only a small slice of what’s out there, but may open some eyes to how widely artificial intelligence research fed on personal images.
Apple, Facebook Trade Barbs Over Privacy-Focused Business Models
Tim Cook criticized app-tracking tools that he said turn consumers into an advertising product a day after Mark Zuckerberg accused Apple of using its platform to interfere with how Facebook apps work.
Council of Europe calls for restrictions on the use of facial recognition technology
The Council of Europe has published guidelines to avoid what it terms significant risks to privacy and data protection posed by the increasing use of facial recognition technology.
More than half App Store privacy labels false in small-scale spot checks
spot-checks by the Washington Post found that more than half the apps they reviewed were either misleading or completely false
Deepfakes Expose Cracks in Virtual ID Verification
The emergence of free, powerful, and easy-to-use deepfake applications has given rise to a new, viable attack vector.
Police Say They Can Use Facial Recognition, Despite Bans
More than a dozen cities have passed facial recognition bans in the past couple of years, but police say there are loopholes.