Boston bans government use of facial recognition
July 6 2020To help end systemic racism, we'll stay away from an error-prone technology that's been shown to have racial bias, the city council said.
Read moreGoogle buys AR smart-glasses company North
July 3 2020They're not surveillance spectacles, says Google, just a piece in the jigsaw of "ambient computing", where helpfulness is all around you.
Read moreTikTok, for one, promised to knock this off months ago but was caught red-handed, still at it, by the new clipboard notification in iOS 14.
Read moreREvil gang threaten to auction celebrity data from Mariah Carey, Lebron James, MTV and more
June 26 2020The ransomware gang is threatening to auction celebrities' legal documents stolen from the law firm it paralyzed in May.
Read moreTwitter emailed business clients to tell them that their financial data may have been seen by the uninvited.
Read moreAt WWDC, Apple promised to double down on data protection in its upcoming iOS 14, macOS Big Sur, and Safari releases.
Read moreAmazing what online search, social media profiles, a DMV database and cameras everywhere can turn up about us.
Read moreA third-party cybersecurity firm were paid to drill a hole in a Tor-reliant operating system to uncover a man who spent years sextorting young girls.
Read moreCan you tell whether you're talking to a human or AI?
Read moreThe Brave browser has provoked unhappiness among some of its users after being caught redirecting searches to affiliate links that earned it commission.
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