Clearview AI banned from selling facial recognition data in the US

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 15:22:23 +0000

The facial recognition and surveillance company was sued for earning off the back of people’s faceprints that were taken without consent.

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Client side scanning may cost more than it delivers

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 13:04:04 +0000

On May 11, 2022, the EU will publicize a proposal for a law on mandatory chat control. Privacy advocates aren’t happy.

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How to remove Google from your life

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 14:35:14 +0000

Google and all its products can dominate the average person’s life. Here’s an in-depth guide on how to remove yourself from their ecosystem.

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Think the video call mute button keeps you safe? Think again

Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 11:35:00 -0700

Have you recently been on a video confefence call, hit the “mute” button and then offered up some nasty comments about a client or a colleague — or even the boss?

Or maybe while in a conference room with colleagues — muted — and pointed out that some proposed action would violate the terms of a secret acquisition in its final stages?

If you were comfortable that the mute button was actively protecting your secret, you shouldn’t have been.

Thanks to some impressive experimentation and research from a group of academics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Loyola University Chicago, utterances made while the app is in mute are still captured and saved into RAM.

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“Reject All” cookie consent button is coming to European Google Search and YouTube

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:39:42 +0000

Soon, all countires in Europe, including the UK and Switzerland, will have the power to accept all and reject all cookies with a single click.

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