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Apple’s new Vision Pro is a privacy mess waiting to happen: The Vision Pro, arriving Friday, brings us a whole new dimension of privacy risks ...
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Apple’s new Vision Pro is a privacy mess waiting to happen
Quick Glance: Optic ID: Apple Unveils Vision Pro's Iris Authentication
  • Apple shares additional details about Optic ID, the iris authentication option for Vision Pro.

  • Optic ID recognizes the uniqueness of your iris, allowing quick unlocking, Apple Pay authorization, third-party app access, and more.

  • Optic ID adapts to various lighting conditions and updates your enrolled template after each successful authentication.

  • For users requiring vision correction, Optic ID works with Vision Pro's ZEISS optical inserts and prescription soft contact lenses.
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Does Your HR Department Use AI for Hiring? Here's What You Should Know: When algorithms influence who gets hired and promoted, there are legal and ethical ...
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Does Your HR Department Use AI for Hiring? Here's What You Should Know
Quick Glance: AI Containment: Adapting Cold War Strategy to New Threat
  • The last two years have seen remarkable advances in artificial intelligence.

  • The next few years promise even larger and more efficient AI models capable of real creativity and complex planning.

  • This technology will rapidly proliferate.

  • This modern form of containment is necessary to manage and prevent AI-related catastrophes and ensure it becomes one of the most extraordinary and beneficial inventions in human history.
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Facebook watches your teens online as they prep for college. How Meta uses the data
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Facebook watches your teens online as they prep for college ...
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EU top court's ruling spells trouble for scoring algorithms: The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruled on Thursday (7 December) that decision-making by scoring ...
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EU top court's ruling spells trouble for scoring algorithms
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Snap’s AI chatbot draws scrutiny in UK over kids’ privacy concerns: Snap’s AI chatbot has landed the company on the radar of the UK’s data protection watchdog ...
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Snap’s AI chatbot draws scrutiny in UK over kids’ privacy concerns
Quick Glance: Actors' Union Criticizes Hollywood Studios' 'Double Standard' in AI Usage
  • TV and film studios should obtain explicit consent, give fair compensation, and credit actors when using their likeness for training generative AI systems.

  • The SAG-AFTRA union argued this week to the US federal government that there is a 'double standard' in the relationship between actors and corporations regarding copyright infringement.

  • Actors are concerned about studios cloning their faces, bodies, or voices to automatically create new content.

  • The union is advocating for higher wages, better working conditions, and protections against AI encroaching on actors' livelihoods.
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Tech companies are selling your privacy back to you: This resurgence of privacy-focused ads has a lot to do with the popularity of data laws.
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Tech companies are selling your privacy back to you
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TikTok Creators’ Financial Info, Social Security Numbers Have Been Stored In China
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TikTok Creators’ Financial Info, Social Security Numbers Have Been Stored ...
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Over the past several years, thousands of TikTok creators and businesses around the world have given the company sensitive financial information—including ... Show more

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Over the past several years, thousands of TikTok creators and businesses around the world have given the company sensitive financial information—including ... Show more

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Meta’s $1.3 Billion Fine Is a Strike Against Surveillance Capitalism: The record-breaking GDPR penalty for data transfers to the US could upend Meta's business ...
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Meta’s $1.3 Billion Fine Is a Strike Against Surveillance Capitalism
Quick Glance: Meta fined €1bn for violating EU data regulations
  • The Irish data protection regulator has issued a record fine of €1.2bn (£1.04bn) to the owner of WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook.

  • This is the largest fine ever imposed for violating the general data protection regulations (GDPR) which require permission from the data owner before using their personal information.

  • Meta was fined for transferring EU citizens' data to the US for processing, despite a 2020 verdict from the highest EU court stating that the data was not sufficiently protected from US spying agencies.

  • Meta has announced plans to seek court stays of the order.
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A new Tech Brief Podcast episode is out! 🎙️

Luca Bertuzzi discussed how GDPR enforcement trends are influencing the global conversation on data ... Show more

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Why child safety bills are popping up all over the US: They’re shaping consequential policies around privacy, parental rights, and speech in the US.
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Why child safety bills are popping up all over the US
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Iowa’s Privacy Law Is ‘Weakest’ So Far, Doesn’t Give People the Right to Opt Out of Targeted Ads
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Iowa’s Privacy Law Is ‘Weakest’ So Far, Doesn’t Give People the Right to ...
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Agencies Adopt a Cautious Approach to Gathering Metaverse Data: Regulators are cracking down on biometric data collection.
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Agencies Adopt a Cautious Approach to Gathering Metaverse Data
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How to Set Up Your Kid’s ‘Smart’ Toy: Is it your child’s new best friend, or a surveillance nightmare waiting to happen? Here’s how to tell the difference.
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How to Set Up Your Kid’s ‘Smart’ Toy
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Why California’s new child privacy law could yield new protections nationwide: Because it can be difficult for technology companies to apply different rules to ...
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Why California’s new child privacy law could yield new protections ...
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NZ-owned edtech companies pledge not to spy on Kiwi schoolkids: Multinational companies harvesting pupils' personal data is sparking controversy overseas.
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NZ-owned edtech companies pledge not to spy on Kiwi schoolkids
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Beloved browser extension acquired by non-beloved antivirus firm: You can see why some don't want Avast having access to every site they visit.
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Beloved browser extension acquired by non-beloved antivirus firm
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Dystopia Is Upon Us. Are You Ready?: From constant surveillance to algorithms that decide what we see, society is entering territory reserved for fictional ...
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Dystopia Is Upon Us. Are You Ready?
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Payment data could become evidence of abortion, now illegal in some states: Financial companies collect a lot of payment data from customers. Prosecutors could ...
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Payment data could become evidence of abortion, now illegal in some states
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Could the data in your period-tracking app be used against you?: Many use their phones to track their cycles. But what happens to that data if abortion becomes ...
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Could the data in your period-tracking app be used against you?