The controversial face recognition company was just fined $10 million for scraping UK faces from the web. That might not be the end of it. “Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI has been fined almost $10 million by the UK’s data protection watchdog for collecting the faces of UK citizens from the web and social …
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This is an interesting and important read. Interesting because it documents an event that many witnessed and continues to be a high profile news item. Important because as you read the story the extent to which individuals are being tracked from their mobile phone data. In this case, the surveillance of a class of terrorists …
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Dark patterns show up all over the web, nudging people to subscribe to newsletters, add items to their carts, or sign up for services. But, says says Colin Gray, a human-computer interaction researcher at Purdue University, they’re particularly insidious “when you’re deciding what privacy rights to give away, what data you’re willing to part with.” …
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau’s ads.txt standard is being abused by publishers mislabeling and sharing a “DIRECT” label for account-bidding IDs used in online bidding protocols — with the DIRECT labels being spread out across sometimes hundreds of unrelated websites. This inventory mislabeling creates online advertising Dark Pool Sales Houses, a market behavior that likely violates …
“Walmart Inc. is accused in a proposed class action of violating California’s privacy law by failing to protect customer data from an alleged hack. Customers face “significant injuries and damages,” such as having their data on the dark web, as a result of a breach the complaint says occurred, according to the suit filed in …
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This is a very good article by Michael Corn Chief Information Security Officer at the University of California, San Diego. He runs through the most pertinent issues regarding privacy and the urgent need to address the issues of how personal data is being used without transparency, true governance or how without giving us an iota …
Shane chats with former NSA spy and whistleblower Edward Snowden on the rise of authoritarianism during the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s all of this data being collected, how are the government so when in in South Korea, I get a text saying oh you met Joe Blow, he might be infected you should, you know sequester …
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Surely, if offered a choice between suffering financial hardship and a temporary invasion of privacy and civil liberties, many people would opt for the latter. While some fiercely object to any threat to our privacy, the unremitting popularity of Facebook — even after the Cambridge Analytica scandal — suggests that most people are happy to …
“The story of Digitalism explains the future as a struggle for data among companies and (certain) governments trying to collect as much data as possible and citizens trying to protect their data and privacy. Digitalism envisions a world where data is the most important resource in society. It thrives on capitalism and depending on the …
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