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October 5, 2021

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.

September 9, 2021

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.

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July 21, 2021

This tool tells you if NSO’s Pegasus spyware targeted your phone

The toolkit scans iPhone and Android backup files for evidence of a compromise.

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July 5, 2021

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.

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June 15, 2021

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.

April 29, 2021

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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January 28, 2021

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.

September 5, 2020

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. […]

July 7, 2020

Microsoft develops new differential privacy platform

Microsoft recently launched differential privacy platform, which injects a small amount of statistical “noise” to large data sets to protect […]

June 5, 2020

CISA Releases New Cyber Essentials Toolkit

As a follow-up to the November 2019 release of Cyber Essentials, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the […]

April 17, 2020

EU publishes toolbox for coronavirus tracking apps

Contact tracing apps, if fully compliant with EU rules and well coordinated, can play a key role in all phases […]

February 23, 2020

Microsoft launches open-source privacy mapping tool

Microsoft has launched a new open-source tool mapping ISO’s global privacy standard, ISO/IEC 27701, to nine different privacy laws from […]

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