On Monday, forty organizations signed a letter calling on an independent government watchdog to recommend a ban on U.S. government use of facial recognition technology. The letter was drafted by the digital privacy advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and signed by organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Color of Change, Fight for the […]
40 Privacy Groups Warn That Facial Recognition Is Threatening Democracy…
Your Smart Vehicle is Recording Your Every Move…
Recent reports indicate that data gathered by automakers and tech companies could be the next front in the battle over digital privacy. In early January, companies at the CES 2020 displayed their plans for making use of the surprising amounts of data gathered by newer model vehicles. Amazon, Intel, Qualcomm, and Blackberry were among the […]
Inside Amazon’s Plan for Alexa to Run Your Entire Life…
The creator of the famous voice assistant dreams of a world where Alexa is everywhere, anticipating your every need…The crux of the plan is for the voice assistant to move from passive to proactive interactions. Rather than wait for and respond to requests, Alexa will anticipate what the user might want. The idea is to […]
Amazon Ring Doorbells Exposed Home Wi-Fi Passwords to Hackers…
A new report from security researchers alleges that Amazon Ring doorbells have exposed users’ home Wi-Fi passwords to hackers. TechCrunch reports that security researchers at Bitdefender have claimed that Amazon Ring doorbells were sending users Wi-Fi passwords in cleartext as the doorbell joins the home network. This would allow hackers to intercept the Wi-Fi password […]
Edward Snowden: ‘It is not data that is being exploited, it’s people’…
Edward Snowden urged tech companies to challenge the practice of widespread data collection by corporations in a speech on Monday, saying not enough progress has been made since he blew the whistle on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) data scrapping in 2013. Speaking via video link at the opening of the Web Summit conference in […]
STUDY: Too Much Screen Time Changes Children’s Brains…
Young children who get more screen time than doctors recommend have differences in parts of the brain that support language and self-regulation, a study at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has found. It’s not clear how the changes affect a child’s development, the researchers said. The study put 47 healthy Cincinnati-area children between 3 and […]
Britain: NHS Opens Clinic to Help Child Addicts of Computer Games…
The NHS is opening the country’s first specialist clinic to treat children and young adults who are addicted to playing computer games such as Fortnite, Candy Crush and Call of Duty. Staff will help those aged 13 to 25 whose lives are being debilitated by spending countless hours playing games. From Tuesday GPs and other […]
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Biology: “Something that can be digitally manipulated”…
It’s easy to laugh at the barking insanity of these monsters, but at the same time, you probably know someone who spent their hard earned money to buy a “smart speaker” surveillance platform for their home. Via: CNBC: Brain inserts and carbon-absorbing bacteria aren’t just the fantasies of Silicon Valley’s richest executives, they’re also a […]
5 Million DoorDash Customers Had Data Stolen in Hack Attack…
About 4.9 million customers, Dashers, and merchants who joined DoorDash, an on-demand food delivery service, before April 2018, had their personal information stolen from an “unauthorized third party,” otherwise known as a hacker. According to DoorDash’s blog, the breach was spotted earlier this month when the company “became aware of unusual activity involving a third-party […]
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