Privacy

404 Media, a new outlet formed by members of Vice’s former tech vertical Motherboard, follows up a previous report on criminals using TransUnion’s TLOxp tool to sell info (SSN, previous address, everything) on virtually any target via Telegram.

In a draft agreement obtained by Forbes, TikTok reportedly offered the government a number of concessions to avoid a ban in the US.

Meet Veilid (pronounced Vay-Lid), an open-source, peer-to-peer application framework launched at Def Con this week.

If you have questions about the proposed US Cyber Trust Mark that’s supposed to help customers answer questions about security and privacy; this 30-day comment period is a good time to speak up.

Porcha Woodruff is suing the city of Detroit and a Detroit detective after she was arrested for a carjacking while she was eight months pregnant. She’d been identified by facial recognition software matching her to a video of the crime. From the complaint:

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) is gearing up to make automakers’ data collection its first target since the agency’s inception in 2020.

After Meta was fined in the EU over its handling of user data in January, Norway plans to ban the company from showing users in the country personalized ads based on their online activity, Politico reports.

The Senate Judiciary Committee moved forward a bill, called the Cooper Davis Act, that would make tech companies report users suspected of criminal drug activity to the DEA. Surveillance litigation director Andrew Crocker of the Electronic Frontier Foundation laid out the group’s concerns (via Gizmodo):

Alex Stamos, Facebook’s former security chief, points out that the integration could make it more difficult for Meta to put a stop to “spammers, troll farms, and economically driven abusers” due to the way the decentralized social networking protocol is set up.

Responding to the spread of facial recognition technology at concert venues, over 100 bands and artists like Rage Against the Machine and Boots Riley are participating in a boycott orchestrated by digital rights advocacy group Fight for the Future.

Over the last year, the US Congress and state legislatures have put out bill after bill to protect kids online — some going as far as banning under 18s from using the internet at all without parental consent.

You don’t? Then maybe you should check to see if it still has access to your Gmail or other Google data — along with any other apps and services you may have forgotten about. Here’s how to check to see which apps, services, and extensions have permission to access your Google account, and how to disconnect them.

Elizabeth Lopatto wrote just last month that Big Tech is warning all of us about the privacy issues with AI chatbots, as companies like Samsung warn employees about giving them sensitive information that could expose trade secrets.

At an event in DC today, FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said the new team would be updating its rules governing what cell carriers can do with customer data:

Strava’s heatmaps can be handy if you’re scoping out new running, cycling, and hiking routes, as it helps visualize popular areas. However, researchers discovered they could reverse-engineer where a Strava user lives — even though heatmaps are created through anonymized, aggregated data.